Hear that clock ticking? There are only nine days left to the release of Ubuntu 9.10.

The Puppy Linux project has released a 4.3.1 bugfix upgrade for last month's major 4.3 release of the popular, lightweight GNU/Linux distro. Puppy Linux 4.3, which has been rebuilt with a new "Woof" build system and PPM package manager, has received a number of positive reviews.

Wake up Australia! Stop listening to all the M$-BS and start saving a fortune with Free Software that REALLY works.

gNewSense removes the Trojan horse that came from Novell and Microsoft; further discussion of why this pair still matters

If you create user accounts on a server, and then allow people to log on to the ftp server under those accounts, there’s a chance that some hacker could find a way out of the chroot jail. That would allow him to access areas of the file system where he has no authorization, and possibly to plant Trojans or other malicious programs.

The problem is not so much talking about ethics as the fact that we have not been talking about the benefits of ethics. Instead of the four freedoms that appeal to developers, we need a similar list that explains what advantages free software offers for ordinary users.

Communities are fundamentally networks of people; people with emotions, passions and insecurities. When we connect these people together, particularly in an online environment, the core of the human condition is laid bare.

Whether it is memory usage and leaks, CPU usage, or optimal cache usage, analysis and profiling would be almost impossible without the right tool set. This article seeks to help developers understand the more common tools available and select the most appropriate tools for their specific performance analysis needs.`