I installed the Alpha 6 build of Ubuntu Karmic Koala Netbook Remix this weekend on my Acer Aspire One netbook. Here are a few quick notes:

• No problems installing from a USB drive, I think it took about a half hour.
• 21 second boot time. That seems pretty good considering the number of services that start by default.
• Sexier user interface, and nice icons.

MMS (My Media System) is a is an open source media center application for Linux. With MMS you can playback videos, brows digital photos, listen to music, or even get the local weather report. Best of all, you can run all this with a remote control.

mms running on a 22 inch monitor

One of the things Micro$oft actually did a nice job on was the file search capability that came with their file browser Windows Explorer. You could simply right click on any folder to search. As handy as this was, the same feature does not come with Ubuntu or Xubuntu. Sure there is the "find" command, but having a way to search using the GUI is handy too.

Fortunately there is an easy way to add this feature using a free Linux tool called Catfish. This article will go into how to install and configure Catfish, and integrate it's search capabilities into the Thunar file browser. When finished, you will be able to right click on a folder in Thunar and get an option to recursively search that folder.