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Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, and Amber Graner, User Experience and Community Specialist for Linaro, keynote the second annual Indiana Linux Fest in Indianapolis on the weekend of April 13-15. ILF hosts a wide range of talks, has exhibitors and offers certification testing.

The HeliOS Project's Ken Starks, who is currently battling neck and throat cancer, gives an interview to update folks on his condition and how it affects the project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area.

High performance and high definition all in one laptop bundle? ZaReason supplies that -- and more -- in their latest laptop offering, the Verix 2.5, which was just released by the Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux computer maker.

Joe Brockmeier wrote an interesting piece on ReadWrite entitled "What We Lose in a post-PC World," and Larry the Free Software Guy hopes, at least, that Hallmark is ramping up the greeting card presses for the dawning of the new age, and the others that accompany it.

The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 10X is putting the final touches on the first-of-the-year Linux expo in North America. Games? SCALE has them, as well as classes at SCALE U and the rapid-fire UpSCALE talks and more.

In writing a blog item several days ago about the naming conventions of some distros, Larry the Free Software Guy gave further thought to the actual names of some distros and FOSS programs themselves, and how some are in desperate need of change. Among a chosen few, one special example would be that X11 window manager with a name that only a urologist could love.

A PC World writer glosses over the naming conventions in Linux distros without going into the detail they rightfully deserve. So Larry the Free Software Guy gives her a hand, expanding on the how and why, from the perspective of digital anthropology, release names are as important as they are humorous.

After a week of testing the hardware, Larry the Free Software Guy found only one glaring downside to the ZaReason Limbo 5440 desktop: having to return it back to ZaReason after the review. The Week in Limbo series wraps up with this epilogue, which includes a new-found love for Linux-based hardware and deep thanks to ZaReason CTO Earl Malmrose and his engineering staff for making such great Linux hardware.

This week -- that's right, seven days, from Sunday to Sunday (12/18 to Christmas Day) -- Larry the Free Software Guy spends a "Week in Limbo" putting the ZaReason Limbo 5440 desktop through paces only he can muster. After two days, he sums up the experience so far in four words: Kid, meet candy store.

With the upcoming tsunami of Linux Mint 12 Lisa articles about to wash up on the FOSS shore, Larry the Free Software Guy goes against the tide to point out that CrunchBang GNU/Linux also has gone through some remarkable and profound changes in its new release, out over the weekend. Not only this, lead developer Philip Newborough not only talks the FOSS talk but walks the FOSS walk: He has decided to leave his job to work on CrunchBang full-time.

Much has been written over the last few days about Linux Mint's meteoric rise in Distrowatch's rankings, seemingly at the expense of Ubuntu's fall. While he thinks Linux Mint's rise is deserved, Larry the Free Software Guy is not convinced these stats are a sound yardstick, and he does his best Jerry Maguire in shouting, "Show me the downloads!"

In an effort to foil crackers attempts to cover their tracks by altering text-based syslogs, as well as improve the syslog process as a whole, two Red Hat developers are proposing a new binary-based tool called The Journal that could replace the syslog daemon in as early as the Fedora 17 release.

One of the most anxiously-awaited Linux releases in quite some time --Linux Mint 12 -- is now available for download on the Linux Mint Mirrors worldwide According to this ZDNet article, some are hoping that this release will be the "Peacemaker" of the recent Linux desktop disputes, between Gnome 2, Gnome 3 and Ubuntu Unity.

As we head into the holidays, thoughts of 2012's Linux shows might take a back seat to more festive activities. But according to Larry the Free Software Guy, the SCALE 10X team is busy working on what's expected to be a landmark show on the expo's 10th anniversary.

While the desktop environment debates continue to rage, Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint team have been quietly coming up with UI solutions that will make Linux Mint 12 a hallmark in Linux distros. But more importantly, Larry the Free Software Guy thinks that coming up with these solutions -- by listening to their users and then delivering options -- is what a community FOSS project should really look like.

Larry the Free Software Guy heard what Mark Shuttleworth had to say at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Orlando recently, and he's right. And he's wrong, not to mention he's off-topic. But that's OK -- those cool Linux power users can give him a pass as soon as he lets them know when Unity will really work.

The SCALE Team is holding a drawing contest for the logo for the SCALE 10X publications and swag, which ends Friday, Nov. 4, at midnight US Pacific Time. The winner gets a trip to SCALE in Los Angeles, including air fare and lodging.

In a world of Brussels sprouts (like) and eggplant (dislike), Larry the Free Software Guy celebrates the fact that we have a lot of choices in the FOSS realm. Fear not, Ubuntu users who view Unity as the digital equivalent of a plate of string beans -- you have a variety of more palatable desktop options with which to use Ubuntu 11.10.

Rikki Endsley offers seven practical reasons to teach children about open source software and get them involved.

Don Parris, author of "Penguin in the Pew," outlines the challenges that today's free/libre software movement faces and contends that the core message of free/libre software should serve to build up, liberate and inspire people.