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"We've read the article at Webupd8.org with Mark Shuttleworth, and here is our opinion on the matter." ... "You have a kernel team because you think you need one, you feel the need to change the kernel. How many serious security flaws have there been in Ubuntu? And how many were specific to Ubuntu? "

In this article I’d like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It’s a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful shell one-liners.

Measuring at just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches this is the smallest Desktop PC. And it's running Linux, one more point for Linux coolness.

Software patents have long been the source of a great deal of concern in the free software community; patents are by far the biggest restraint on our ability to program our own computers. Those who worry about these things have expected that attacks might come from patent trolls, or from software companies with fading prospects.

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Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 1st-2nd. The organizers are currently receiving registration and abstract submissions (submissions are open until the end of the month).

This week on The Linux Action Show! Rumor has it: The Big Novell Purchase was JUST aproved we discuss what this means for Linux!

Welcome to part 2! Last time I talked about all the cool features I wished for in KDE that have already became reality. This time I’m going to detail the things I hope to see in future KDE releases.

Mozilla has confirmed that version 3.0 of its popular open source Firefox web browser is approaching its end-of-life (EOL). According to the Mozilla developer's weekly meeting notes, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x following the release of version 3.0.19, the last security and stability update to the 3.0.x branch.

This year's EuroPython event will take place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, UK and the conference organisers are currently seeking submissions from attendees for talks, papers and tutorials that cover all aspects of Python

Proprietary giant is licensing open source to its partners. What is going on?

Chris Brown attended the jury trial today for us in SCO v. Novell, and he has the details about the mistrial motion, the denial of the motion to allow evidence, and there was testimony today from Kim Madsen and Darl McBride and a deposition played of Steven Sabbath. The mistrial was related to the denial of Novell's motion to allow evidence.

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Do you think your systems are secure? Install DenyHosts and you’ll realize that you were in denial.

Eban Moglen suggests this ARM-based, GNU/Linux device as a networking solution to the troubled times now facing the Free Internet. Communicate with networking friends with greater security. See interview below.

Software Engineering with FOSS and Linux: "It is often the case that an sftp transfer gets interrupted for one reason or another, resulting to partially transferred files. This can be annoying, especially in the case of large file transfers."

Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom as a result of the vast stores of information they hold about us, and the in-depth surveillance that implies.

The march to secure the Internet's core DNS infrastructure with DNSSEC is moving forward

In lieu of today's regular column, I've decided to present an edited transcript of a very informative interview of Nina Paley by Thomas Gideon of "The Commandline Podcast." Paley has been doing a lot of interviews since her free-licensed release of "Sita Sings the Blues" and her subsequent work with QuestionCopyright.org (specifically her two "Minute Meme" animations: "Copying Is Not Theft" and "A

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This early development comparison of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3 produced some of the most interesting results as of late in terms of comparing different Linux desktop distributions.

Tim Bray--co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee--has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone.

If you want to change your language settings in Ubuntu , do the following