Many users of open source software point to the fact that their applications and platforms are more secure than proprietary alternatives simply because they aren't such obvious targets for malware distribution. As just one example, the Standish Group recently completed a survey in which 70 percent of respondents said Red Hat Linux is less vulnerable to security threats than Windows.

Project management is becoming an increasingly important part of the Sys Admin's life. While Microsoft Project seems to be the standard project management tool used in most environments that I have worked in, it can sometimes be nice to have such tools web based so that multiple users can share information. This is where tools such as Collabtive come in.

MontaVista's Mobilinux 5.0 Linux distribution for mobile phones won an EDN Magazine 2008 "Innovation Award" under the software category. The award for "Innovator of the Year," meanwhile, went to Intel's 45nm semiconductor process technology team.

"2008.0_beta2 is here. Thanks to you, our community, for testing beta1 [...]  This should be the last beta and will be followed by the final 2008.0 release after further bug fixing..."

"The CDlinux team is proud to announce the release of CDlinux-0.6.1. This release has a minor bug fix and some major feature enhancement..." - http://cd-linux.sourceforge.net/en/about.html

Here's a site full of links to various tutorials around the net on how to get Linux running on a laptop. It lists all known tutorials by make, model and distro used in the tutorial. It's a good site to go to, but is a bit ubuntu heavy. So if you know of tutorials using other dist ...

FIRSTLY, it's important to realise the distinction between 'Linux' and 'Free Open Source'. 'Linux' actually refers to the kernel – the computer code which acts like the brains, if you like - of a series of operating systems known in the Linux/Free Open Source world as 'distributions'.