But since a password like that would be impossible to remember, it's not really practical for most end user applications. So how long should your corporate password policy specify that a password should be?
Read more »Ubuntu Linux - To love and to hate
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Ubuntu Linux is, arguably, the most popular Linux distro around today, with millions of people who deeply love it. There are some people however, who, for some reasons, do not just want to hear the mention of Ubuntu.
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Does the Linux desktop need to be popular?
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Does Linux desktop even need to be popular? There are, shall we say, differing options among the open source cognoscenti gathered in Portland, Oregon this week for the annual LinuxCon.
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7 cool Linux projects
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As autumn begins, the nights start drawing in and you're no doubt itching for new things to do with your Linux box. Well, we asked our projects expert to rustle up 7 great things you can do on your penguin-powered machine.
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A Free Digital Society
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RMS Speech: « To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War on Sharing. »
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The big Kongoni Hackfest: Saturday October 3rd from 11am SAST onward.
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"Kongoni is planning a major hackfest event that will coordinate both an online and offline code-sprint. The purpose of the work is to modify our kongoni_current ports tree to be compatible with the new FHS-compliant slackware64 structures so that we can migrate to it as an upstream for kongoni Cicero..."
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Feminism's dirty little secret
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I consider myself to be a FOSS proponent and there is only one thing that counts to me: great code. I don't care whether you are black or white, atheist or Christian, male or female. I don't check the "About" boxes before I give my judgment. Great code is just great code. It's what FOSS is all about: meritocracy.
Read more »The Art of Community Available For Free Download
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When I started work on The Art of Community I was really keen that it should be a body of work that all communities have access to. My passion behind the book was to provide a solid guide to building, energizing and enabling pro-active, productive and enjoyable communities.
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Melbourne, Australia
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"The 2009 Software Freedom Day took place on Saturday 19th September. The Linux Users of Victoria group organized the celebration at Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia. I have uploaded some photos taken during the day to..."
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"What a lovely day we had for our Software Freedom Day 2009 celebration [...] We did a great job promoting software freedom..."
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Ellicott City, Maryland
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"Yesterday was Software Freedom Day. I was invited to speak at the Maryland Ubuntu Local Community by its leader, Chuck Frain. He suggested I speak on open formats, a topic which makes considerable sense given my podcast. I put together about thirty minutes worth of material and headed up early yesterday morning..."
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Software Freedom Day 2009 in Guatemala
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"Yesterday was the Software Freedom Day (SFD) 2009 in Guatemala. For the event arrived almost 35 people and I was one of them..."
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CLUG celebrates Software Freedom Day with some dirty hands – Photoblog
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"Okay, so yesterday was, of course, Software Freedom Day. All over the world user groups and organizations held various events to spread the word and promote the cause..." — (A.J. Venter, lead developer of the Kongoni GNU/Linux project) —
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Software Freedom Day in Boston
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«...Control has replaced Free Speech in Stallman’s the rhetoric. This is one of the most noticeable things I took away from today, that there has been a cultural shift from the way proponents of Free Software talk and communicate about the ideas and rationalities of Free Software principles.
Read more »Life Lessons Learned From Using Linux
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It's no secret that those of us who have learned to appreciate Linux and in effect all things that are related to FOSS have gained some wisdom that can be applied to our daily lives. I'm not an inspirational writer but I would like to share to non-believers some of the wonderful life lessons that I've discovered from using Linux.
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