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It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results.

The Ohio LinuxFest Free and Open Source Software Conference and Expo in Columbus, Ohio October 10th and 11th 2008 list of speakers.

Speakers include:

Paul Ferris - Managing your Free Software career

Jon"maddog" Hall - Sustainable Computing

Peter Salus - Where Next? - Ohio LinuxFest

Celestia is a free opensource space simulation software that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe and has become a valuable tool for education in Astronomy. Celestia is used in homes, schools, museums and planetariums around the world, it also is used as a visualization tool by space mission designers.

Developers have integrated a network topology visualization tool in the Nmapu2019s Zenmap graphical user interface by using RadialNet. And the network scanner now also recognizes iPhones and Wii consoles.

Windows Guy moves from openSuse to Linux Mint 5 after receiving an overwhelming number of recommendations from his readers to test it. Another in his continual quest to find a replacement for Vista that just works.

In my job as a systems engineer, I have handled various storage implementations for our enterprise clients. These may be in the form of direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), or Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) systems. In these implementations, clients generally use proprietary storage products from vendors such as EMC, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and EqualLogic. Many of these devices work just like ordinary servers with multiple hard disks and an operating system. Some use Unix and Linux as base operating systems, so I began to explore the possibility of using that kind of operating system on ordinary servers to turn them into storage boxes.

The most powerful physics projects in the history of known universe - The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)- shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world's astrophysicists it also takes another key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux.

This tutorial explains how to set up a FreeRadius 2.x server for wifi authentication, authorization and accounting in conjunction with MySQL & web based management with Daloradius on CentOS 5.x. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking.

It has been one year and four days since X.Org 7.3 was released and a number of months since X.Org 7.4 was supposed to be released, but today X.Org 7.4 is scheduled to finally make it out the door! This release is shipping quite late and with a slimmed down set of features, but in this article we have more details on what this release holds in store for the Linux desktop community and why it may be a short-lived release.

Medibuntu is a project somewhat similar with debian-multimedia.org for Debian, providing packages which are not included in the official Ubuntu repositories due to legal issues. In order to make use of the packages included in Medibuntu (including the non-free video codecs w32codecs and libdvdcss2 for watching ecrypted DVDs), you will only need to follow several easy steps explained below.

A new high-tech soap opera kicked off last week in Silicon Valley as Google, long a supporter of the Mozilla Foundation and its open source browser Firefox, jumped into Mozilla's turf with its own browser, Chrome. Will the sexy new Chrome catch the eye of those early adopters who helped Firefox get started and eventually grab nearly 20 percent of the browser market once dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer?

Four percent of the people visiting The VAR Guy (www.thevarguy.com) now run the new Google Chrome Web browser. That's pretty darn impressive, since Chrome is only a week old, notes The VAR Guy. Here's the scoop.

Paragent, a start-up that marries open source with managed services, is turning heads at the DEMOfall show -- an invite-only event that can make-or-break a software company's business. Here's how Paragent could reshape the managed services market.

Well, well, well! We seem to be going on a crusade here at iTWire - the old W vs L battle. The Windows is better than Linux creed - which I think is another way of proffering reasons why marketing is better than technology. Ten reasons to run Vista? There are far more reasons than that to run GNU/Linux. And it doesn't take as long to enumerate them because the reasons are simple and you do not need ten paragraphs to outline each argument. When it comes to GNU/Linux, the KISS principle applies.

PCLinuxOS Magazine, September 2008 (Issue 25) is available to download

We're just about done with this series of somewhat disjointed posts on number pools and guaranteed matches. Hopefully, each post in the series has been somewhat entertaining and far enough removed from the starting post that we kept up some sense of originality. It wasn't too hard (unless we screwed up ;) since there were so many unique concepts to cover within the realm of reaching the Objective of the original post. Please refer back to our post on number pools for definitions of all the major terms and a listing of the Objective (although that definition is repeated in a few other posts along the way).

Desktop Linux reported that Lenovo seems to have quietly exited the desktop Linux business. Unfortunately for desktop Linux users, that news has turned out to be correct. Lenovo, in a note to Practical Technology, confirmed that it was exiting the pre-installed desktop Linux business.

In my ongoing quest to take over the world with Linux as my OS of choice, I've noticed that simply handing someone an install CD doesn't really do the trick. I've also noticed that formatting their Windows 95 install with a fresh version of Linux tends to make angry faces as well. The more tech savvy the user is, the more resistant to change they tend to be. As with most worthwhile endeavors, it takes time and patience for a person to learn to love Linux. The problem is that hating Windows isn't enough. Most people hate Windows, but feel trapped into using it. That's where my 3 step approach comes in.

Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next major version number of Ubuntu (Ubuntu 9.04) will be codenamed "Jaunty Jackalope." In a posting to the Ubuntu Developer's list today, Shuttleworth outlined a number of parallels between the mythical beast and the release's goals.

The iTWire Vista Vs. Linux battle has been great fun to watch unfold, however it does seem to have missed the point that Apple Mac OS X is better than them both...Forget 10 reasons why Vista is better than Linux, or 20 reasons why Linux is better than Vista. All you really need to know is that there is one single reason why Apple Mac OS X is better than them both.