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Steve Jobs tops Forbes CEO poll for 20th straight time

March 1 - 19:25 EST   Apple CEO Steve Jobs has has finished at the top of the Forbes CEO Approval Tracker for the 20th straight month with an approval rating of 95 percent for February. Behind Jobs were: IBM's Samuel Palmisano (58%), Dell's Kevin Rollins (41%) Sun's Scott G McNealy (39%), and Hewlett-Packard's Robert P. Wayman (17%).  

Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More

Over the last year, Knoppix has earned it's way into my list of favorite Linux distros and at CeBIT today the next version is being introduced.

The German tech news site Heise Online reports that Knoppix 3.8 is being presented at CeBIT (Hall 9, Stand C39). Knoppix 3.8 has kernel 2.6 as default, KDE 3.3.2, OpenOffice 1.1.4, as well as... Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0. There's also a really neato new thing involving unionfs. It seems to imply that you can change most anything on the running system, even as it is running from CD - and changes can be stored too (even on NTFS).

In case you hadn't heard:

What is KNOPPIX?

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.