One of the new features in Ubuntu 8.10 is the ability to create an encrypted directory for content you do not want others to access. Oh, by the way, did you know that anyone can read your files that are in your home directory? Here is an example of sue logged in and able to open files in mike's home directory. However, note that they are opened read-only so they cannot be changed.

Here you can see the default login screen for Ubuntu 8.10. You simply add username and password and you have access to the Desktop. Simple, however, as you will see there are many options that can go with this login process. If you will go to System/Administration and select Login Window you will find that you have a lot of options available for login.

All right. We can't be serious about SCO all the time. Time for a laugh. And this is funny. Thanks to Christopher B. Wright using a Creative Commons license his cartoons, we can add this one to our permanent collection.

VIA liaises with Microsoft; Lenovo seems to be favouring Microsoft and its partner Novell (excluding Red Hat)

Yesterday we took a look at BashDiff, a patch for the bash shell that adds new capabilities. We've already looked at some of the additions that BashDiff makes to bash's commands and string parsing abilities. Today we'll look at modifying positional parameters, parsing XML, talking to ISAM and relational databases, creating GTK+2 GUIs, and a few other tricks and issues.

H-P seems to have had enough of SUSE, so it took matters into its own hands with the Ubuntu-based MIE

More ways to recover your Linux or Unix terminal session, with reader contributions!