A linux machine has a logging system which keeps track of what everything is doing. Anytime you authorize with sudo it gets logged. Anytime you (or someone else) connects via ssh it gets logged.

Generally I avoid reviewing distributions that as in beta phase. It seems like commenting on half cooked solution, when everyone knows that it is not finished yet. But I would like to make an excetpion in case of Freespire.

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #51 for the week July 29th - August 4th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover job opportunities at Canonical, potential system issues caused by Automatix, the upcoming fourth alpha release of Gutsy Gibbon, coverage of the US LoCo Teams Project and meetup, and much much more.

Question: A friend of mine has Linux installed at home, and he's always gloating about how he never pays for software anymore. I'm not ready to make that jump yet, so as a Windows user, what can I get for free?

The klik-project addresses the urgent need of a sane solution to the current Linux software installation problem. While the first version provided an interesting solution in several situations there were still quite some problems and flaws.
Now a new version of klik is developed which aims at solving the remaining issues as well.

As some of you know, I gave up on MS Windows a long time ago. I have a small partition with Vista on it, but I run openSuse Linux more than 90% of the time.

Mind mapping, the practice of visually representing linked ideas in diagrams, is a controversial technique.