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Asus might have lost the netbook war to Acer, but it is fighting back as far as the keyboard PC wars are concerned. With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) still a day away in Vegas, the geeky and gadgetry announcements are coming thick and fast. We've already got a taster of the new AMD Yukon platform and now we have the weirdest of wonderful concepts from Asus. The Eee Keyboard PC.

[It looks great. No word about the OS yet, but the pics remind me of Plasma or OpenMoko, so it may be Linux -- Sander]

I've been a Linux user for some years now, and I've decided to start documenting the process I went trough. Today I might be seen as a Linux guru from the point of view of a starting user, from the point of view of a Linux guru I'm probably more seen as a starting user. I see myself as an intermediate, but even as my knowledge level might not be top level, On this day I do manage a business network, a few mail servers and web servers running a few hundred web sites. I do all this with relative ease and I could not have known I would be doing so much with Linux on the moment I started going down this path.

SSH, the "secure shell", is the workhorse of secure remote system administration. SSH is a very strong protocol, and you can make it even stronger by using encryption keys in instead of passwords. Jeremy M. Jones shows us how.

See how you can change the process-execution flow in the target Linux Power systems and overwrite a local variable in 32- and 64-bit modes to correct buffer overflow.

This is a quick tutorial for setting up DomainKeys on Ubuntu (I used 6.06 LTS - but should work the same on others) using dkim-filter with Postfix so emails from your domain will not constantly end up in Yahoo's spam filter.

Cisco Systems is claiming that international interest in its recently launched contest for router-centric application development has been so strong that it must extend the first-phase deadline from Jan. 12 to Feb. 27.

From the 'it's not there yet' files: In my opinion, one of the greatest innovations of the Firefox 2 release was the inclusion of Tab Overflow. For the first time I could actually handle as many open browser tabs as I wanted. While Mozilla introduced Tab overflow in 2006, here we are in 2009 and Google Chrome doesn't have that feature. For someone like me that often keeps 10+ tabs open at any one time this is a (minor) problem.

As appears debootstrap RPM developed for Fedora 9 works fine at Xen 3.3.1 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 and provide an option to create Intrepid Server PV Guest via debootstrapped Ubuntu’s image in RH’s Xen Dom0 environment. Install F9’s rpm then debootstrap would understand non Ubuntu Environment.

Having met so many of you at Akademy last year, I am now glad to notify you guys that we have approval from Bayero University Kano Nigeria to host the Free and Open Source Nigeria 2009 conference on 6th to 9th March. We want to invite KDE contributors and users including organisations and companies who want to come and give talks or workshops during the event. We are expecting more than 2000 participants from within and outwith the university. We will be glad to receive guests from all over the world, especially people with vast experiences in open source.

Graphical Twitter clients are a dime a dozen these days, but what if you want to use the ubiquitous micro-blogging service from the terminal? On machines like Linutop or netbooks, running a graphical Twitter client is a waste of precious resources, so a command-line tool like Twidge can come in rather handy. Using it, you can quickly post tweets and view the latest posts from people you follow without leaving the convenience of the terminal. Moreover, Twidge supports Identi.ca — an open source micro-blogging service.

Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Bloomberg, IBM, Nokia, and many more. I suspect that many of them would pay for commercial suppor

Hey Greg Davis: You’ve just been named Dell’s global channel chief -- in charge of the PC giant’s worldwide partner strategy. What are you going to do to drive new profits? Here’s one suggestion: Offer some Ubuntu PCs to Dell's worldwide partner network. Sure, Dell has successfully introduced Ubuntu PCs and laptops to the niche buy-direct geek crowd. But now it’s time for Dell to disrupt the very PC industry it helped to build.

AMD's Alex Deucher has announced the release of the xf86-video-ati 6.10.0 driver. This open-source ATI graphics driver update brings forth bi-cubic scaling on R300/400/500/690 chipsets, new ASICs are supported by this DDX driver, reduced X-Video tearing, and quite a few bug-fixes.

The whole list of changes found in xf86-video-ati 6.10.0 can be read on the X.Org mailing list...

A long thread at LXer about whether or not Debian should include unsourced binary blobs in its kernel had some commenters if not exactly singing the praises of totally free GNU/Linux distro gNewSense, then at least humming those praises. The point was that if you really are bugged by blobs in the kernel, you should put your geek-boy money where your mouth is, eschew "compromising" distros such as Debian and Ubuntu, and use the Ubuntu-derived, blob-free, Free Software Foundation-approved gNewSense.

Back in September we talked about the possibility of America's Army returning to Linux with the 3.0 release. One of the America's Army developers mentioned that it's a possibility and there may be a way to get the client restored and updated on Linux...

Late last month the open-source community was presented with Chrome 9 series DRM support as the first step in providing 3D acceleration for these VIA IGPs atop a free software stack. Today we have been greeted with more patches from VIA's Bruce Chang.

The patches submitted to the DRI-devel mailing list fix a system hang with multi X support, fix a system hang issue caused by 3D scaling+ACPI, and address a segmentation fault when playing video with AGP after resuming from the system suspend mode.

These VIA driver fixes will likely find their way into the Linux 2.6.29 kernel...

Today we're going to take a look at a part of Perl that a lot of folks shy away from; mostly because (from my experience) they feel it's too abstract a notion or too complicated to understand. But, if you know a guy who knows a guy, you already understand this concept ;-)

I've owned this book for quite awhile and discovered that I have never reviewed it. I determined to correct my oversight and to share my insights regarding Goldwasser and Letscher's book with you. Of course, the snake head on the cover is totally inaccurate, given that the Python language was actually named for Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and company (or Flying Circus, rather). I suppose the snake's head just looked more cool against a jet black background, though. Is the book itself just as cool? Let's find out.

Now that my work was done I decided to look for an FPS game that would run on my new EEE PC 900.

Novell Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon responds to five key questions about the company’s SUSE Linux strategies, broader software efforts and partner initiatives. Here's the scoop.