Gnomie Cassiel Angelus writes:

Here are a few links I thought might interest you or your show’s Linux-savvy viewers!

Ext2 Installable File System: This Web site contains a download that will allow NT4.0 / 2k / XP / 2003 / Vista users to be able to write and read Ext2 formatted partitions. It could be very handy for people who dual boot Linux and Windows but want to be able to share files between either OS (if thier partitions use Ext2 or its newer brother Ext3, which is also supported by this driver). I’ve tested it myself and I can confirm it installs quite fast and is very easy to use — in fact, I’m using Ext2 filesystem for my XP Pagefile partition!

andLinux: This is something I come across today and it looks very interesting. From what I’ve been able to tell, it is a project that will eventually allow all Linux applications to be able to run inside Windows. It seems you will need some knowledge of Linux at least — even if it’s just from messing about in Kubuntu. According to the site:

“andLinux uses CoLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. CoLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, CoLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.”

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS): This is another interesting project I’ve come across a couple of times. It’s a free software project that aims to replace the proprietary BIOS found on nearly every PC motherboard.

This is someone’s YouTube video on how they installed coreboot on thier motherboard. Apprantly LANL, AMD, coresystems, Linux Networx, MSI, Gigabyte, and Tyan have all contributed to coreboot according to one comment. From what I can tell, this is going to be one for the Linux power users and probably ones who don’t use Windows (although it does support booting into Windows).

Anyway, hope you enjoy the links!