Fear #2 (Cost!): Let’s look at skill-sets first. When you hire an employee who labels themselves a Windows Server Administrator, you are generally getting someone whose expertise on servers stops with Windows. Yeah, sounds extremely obvious, but I am addressing an important point.

One last response to the provocation from Microsoft (charm offensive), which IDG's fauxpen source blog is still spinning (third time now)

Allison Randal, known for her work as an architect of the Parrot virtual machine, has been appointed Technical Architect of Ubuntu at Canonical by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.

InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source platforms, middleware, applications, and application development tools

The Miranda IM project has released version 0.9.0 of its open source instant messaging client, adding a number of new features, many of which focus on improving unicode support and on overall protocol improvements

You may have already seen our list of awesome Conky scripts or configurations, and perhaps applied or used some of them on your own Linux desktop. Since that collection was quiet popular, I decided to scour the web once again to gather more Conky scripts that I could share with all of you.

Sometimes there are ideas that won’t go away. The other day, the Linux Magazine publisher asked me about a “cluster of smart phones.” As the processors in cell phones continue to get more powerful, the question is actually worth asking because many smart phones only need to be smart part of the time. Cluster HPC mavens are always looking for latent CPU cycles, why not check your pocket.

Trinity Audio Group announced an upgrade to its Linux-based "audio operating system," with an improved user interface, the real-time kernel 2.6.31, and a player that lets users change the speed of a song without altering pitch. "Transmission 4.0" is available as a download, on a USB stick, or preloaded on a netbook or ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), the company says.