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With the impending release of the GPL v3 the dramatic effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on IP ownership pointed out by Wasabi Systems may be slightly mooted for companies intending to comply with the GPL.

Even with the best recovery systems in place accidents can still happen. When you've terminally trashed the file system of your drive after a 4AM coding marathon more drastic measures than a backup restore are called for. Enter Foremost.

Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning by Steve Best takes a look at finding performance snags and tweaking them out of a system. Determine if this book would make a good addition to your reference library in this review.

Chris Bergeron writes: "One of the things that gets overlooked in comparisons of Windows and Linux is the ability to troubleshoot hardware conflicts. Sometimes, it's not about how many devices are supported but how easy repair is when something goes wrong."

[Excellent article, and a must read if you're concerned about hardware support under GNU/Linux. This ties in with the "Year Without Windows" article from a few days ago. - Ed]

PCBurn has just posted a review of the reference book Self Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination from PTR and Bruce Perens' Open Source Series. It's squarely aimed at people tasked with determining the source of software/OS failures on the Linux OS. PCBurn takes a look at what the book has to offer and if it's right for your reference shelf.

Among all the reference books to grace a stores shelf some of the trickiest to write are "beginner's guides". While it's easy to include the information necessary to start using something, making it stick in the readers memory is not. Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux is a book that mostly sticks, due to it's friendly tone and well chosen examples.

VIA is beginning to ramp up production on the successors to their C3 part, the C7 and C7-M CPU's. Keith Kowal, marketing manager for VIA's chipset platform group, took some time on his promotional tour to talk with us about the new platform.

Over the past few years SATA has become a standard interface on hard drives and is starting to show up in many peripheral devices. Today we're taking a look at two similar hard drives to see how well SATA is supported in Linux.

Based on Debian Linux and promoted by Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu Linux has gained a loyal following since it's inception. Today we'll be taking a look at Ubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" and seeing what this South African based distribution with a global appeal is all about.

Today at PCBurn we're taking a look at Mark G. Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming". It aims to be a complete learning and reference guide to the Linux shell. We take a look at the salient points that a reference and teaching book should cover and see how "A Practical Guide..." addresses them.