A husband-wife team is in the driver's seat for the 11th Australian national Linux conference which kicks off in Wellington, New Zealand, on January 18 next year.

In a long posting on the Debian mailing list, Ubuntu sponsor Mark Shuttleworth sets out his position in the dispute over bringing a fixed development cycle to Debian's GNU/Linux distribution. Shuttleworth points out that he has long advocated a model of synchronisation between the various releases of Linux distributions which are based on the same versions of the same core components.

People doing everything in their browser scares me not because I think everyone should use the desktop but rather because I don't think the browser is the best user tool for doing all those things.

Since I wrote about getting the Windows license fee refunded on my Asus 1008HA netbook here in the UK, there have been more examples where individuals have had some success.

I was wrong. Hundreds of millions of Internet users were annoyed because of Windows botnet-based DDoS aimed at one (1) person.

While Psystar and Quo clone the Apple experience with Mac OS X and PC hardware, we can do it with a Linux based OS. This article presents a few ideas and suggestions for such a project under the fictional brand: "Mond Computers" and "Mond OS".

"Peter Seibel has given me a sneak peek at his new book Coders at Work. Allow me to beat my colleague Xach to the punch by saying This book is dead sexy. When it comes out, you should definitely get a copy. Seibel is a good writer and a good programmer, and I'm a big fan of his last book Practical Common Lisp. You should get that book too.

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