"«A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its access to GPL-only symbols,» noted Pavel Roskin, offering a patch to address the issue. Linux creator Linus Torvalds was unimpressed, «I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately. If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols» [...] «Ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY functions to code that is *not* GPL'd.» [...] « So stop blathering. ndiswrapper has one purpose, and one purpose only: to load non-GPL'd code. So OF COURSE it shouldn't touch GPLONLY functions. »"

Bad things happen, and sometimes those bad things will happen to your computer, or a computer you are responsible for. There are quite a few Linux live CDs out there designed for the purpose of rescue systems.

"Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2.1, a specialist Linux distribution designed for hard disk partitioning tasks..."

GNU Mailman is the most popular free software mailing list manager, and probably the most configurable; however, it normally requires you have a web and mail server always connected to the Internet. With a little extra work, you can run Mailman from your intermittently-connected GNU/Linux desktop.

"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.8. GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html. The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ or from your favorite GNU mirror..."

The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements. Therefore gOS starts to work reasonably well on systems as low end as a 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB RAM.

Terminator gives the possibility of having multiples terminal within the same window.

It was nine years ago this month that Gerard Beekmans started the very successful project called Linux From Scratch, or LFS for short. It was December of the year 1999 when LFS was first released but that is not when it was started. That start began in February. Gerard is not exactly sure of the date, he just knows that it is in February.