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aKademy 2007 is now open for registration. aKademy is KDE's World Summit, a week long event for all KDE contributors, industry partners and users. The week starts with a two day conference, and is set to include a tutorial day and a schools and education day. As always, attendance to aKademy is free of charge, but you must register. Registration must be in by the end of the month if you want the aKademy Team to book your accommodation for you. See you in Glasgow!

There's a very positivearticle in the Washington Post on the Veterans Affairs VistA software:'...Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab. Even though President Bush has set a goal of 2014 for when most Americans should have their medical information stored electronically, the Department of Veterans Affairs is today one of the few health systems -- and by far the largest -- that is virtually paperless...'

Today security is one of the key aspects in our daily life - sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious. Security has many aspects and one of them is computer security or security of your or your business' computer data. In this tutorial I will show how to encrypt a whole disk drive using (X)Ubuntu Feisty, dm-crypt, and LUKS. The article also contains some legal considerations.

Tom Chastain, a legend in the Indianapolis Racing Realm and the owner of Chastain Motorsports has announced his team's entrance in this year's Indy 500. And if we've got anything to do with it...as long as I have one struggling breathe left inside of me, that monster of a race car will have Linux splashed all over it when the flag drops. It will be the first time in history that Linux as been an active participant of the now-famous cry. "Gentlemen, Start your engines"!

With a major revampment of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, MontaVista Software hopes to spur development of more embedded Linux systems in handheld PDAs, smart phones, telecom equipment, and all manner of other devices.

The KDE project is happy to announce the selection of 40 KDE projects for the Google Summer of Code 2007.

Linuxfest Northwest 2007 is coming to Bellingham, Wash., on April 28 and 29.

Wanted...stunning, stellar, stupendous Graphics for Tux500

List of Bandwidth Monitoring Tools For Linux

There’s lots of stuff out there about improving your workflow on Macs (lots of it based around Getting Things Done or similar ideas). I do have a Mac, and some of this I’ve found very useful (and some less so, admittedly).

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Release Dates and Mark Shuttleworth About Gutsy

Yes that's right Gutsy Gibbon is on the road

Desktop Search Engine with Doodle in Debian

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says the Ubuntu developer team is planning a new ultra-free flavour of Ubuntu that is planned for release alongside Ubuntu version 7.10 - codenamed Gutsy Gibbon - later this year.

Learn a performance-based approach to sizing infrastructure and successfully olve one of the most risky and costly pieces of the MMOG puzzle.

With its upcoming "Feisty Fawn" version of Ubuntu Linux due April 19, Canonical hopes to shed light on what happens when things go wrong.

Google is a wonderful tool, some prefer Scroogle and that's fine. I am beginning to get comfortable with it myself. However, sometimes a question is a bit too complex and is shaded with a bit more nuance than Google can handle. Fortunately, Linux has a plethora of L33Ts to answer any question a new Linux User might have. This week's question was pretty good. Note to L33TS...L33T Juice is on sale at 7-11 this week. Looks like you need it. Final Score New User 1 - L33TS Zipp0, Nada, zilch-a-roony, goose egg...

After thinking that I'm "breaking" some kind of news on Fluxbuntu becoming an official port of Ubuntu, I go back to the Ubuntu Forums and find out that the April 1 day meant that it was an April Fool's joke from Fluxbuntu principal Joe Jaxx, reports bodhi.zazen, the other Fluxbuntu biggie who posted it in the first place.

Probably their first use with Linux not least their first look at a real computer. While these young African children will be interfacing with the computer using Sugar (pictured above) and applications such as Etoys, the underlying OS is Linux. Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop.

Foreword: In this guest column, Doug Gaff gives his take on last week's Embedded Systems Conference and ponders the future of the industry. What does "embedded" mean? As processors become more powerful and embedded devices are increasingly interconnected, Gaff contends that the distinction between "embedded" and "application" development is blurring.