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Ubuntu Kung Fu is a new book by Keir Thomas available in PDF and Print format from the Pragmatic Programmers. The book promises over 300 tips, tricks, hints, and hacks for users of Ubuntu Gnu/Linux.

Yesterday the CEOs of ISO and IEC delivered their required report on the four appeals filed relating to adoption of Microsoft's OOXML specification. That documents summarizes the appeals, provides a response to each claimed basis for appeal, and asks the Technical Management Board (TMB) to vote whether to reject or further process each separate appeal. The CEOs also make a recommendation, which reads as follows:

Terra Soft, the developer of Yellow Dog Linux on the PowerStation platform, is pushing the limits of design and performance with the planned mid-July release of a quad core PowerPC deskside tower that returns the Power Architecture to both the workstation and server markets at a competitive price.

Go to just about any open source conference and you're bound to see free (as in Beer) Ubuntu Linux CDs being distributed. It's also available for Free by simply downloading it online. Ubuntu also has a Free shipping service where they'll ship a copy of Ubuntu to anyone that wants it. BUT if you don't want Ubuntu for Free - you can now pay for it at your local Best Buy.

FreeEOS is a software library for calculating an equation of state for conditions in stellar interiors.

Check out the all new episode with a tutorial on Virtualbox and a special remake of a famous commercial that those of us that are 30+ will remember.

Microsoft has launched the Windows Vista Small Business Assurance program, which aims to help partners (and their customers) "Move to Windows Vista with Confidence." Shockingly, The VAR Guy (an Ubuntu Linux user) actually likes the idea. Here's why.

Almost two weeks after leaking details about its new line of Ming PDA phones, Motorola made it official with a formal launch. Shipping now in China, the line includes a Linux-based Ming A1600 model offering GPS, handwriting recognition, and a 3.2-megapixel camera with business card reader.

What could be cooler than the brand spanking new 3G Apple iPhone? How about adding your own content to it? Here’s how to begin writing your very own programs for the Jesus phone, replete with flashy effects and pictures. All you need is a Mac and an iPhone. Heck, you don’t even need the iPhone - here’s how to get an iPhone emulator too!

The 9600 GSO is nVidia's latest foray in the mid-level 9000 series of GeForce cards, and is also the cheapest for a performance card. BIOSLEVEL.com looks at the unit's performance in Linux and Windows.

This howto shows how to unlock multiple devices in the intial ramdisk remotely. I suggest to use a keyfile for automatic unlocking. The keyfile should be stored in the normally encrypted root partition - so you still have to unlock that one. During boot process it will then be used to unlock all the other devices.

Google has made a habit of throwing its considerable weight behind a project and making it succeed. The company's Android project, its effort at creating a Linux-based smartphone, is running into delays, while a similar effort by the LiMo Foundation already has produced handsets. Making good software for mobile phones is hard -- even for a technically adept company like Google. Indeed, it's so difficult that the fleet-footed champion of search advertising finds itself in the unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving industry behemoths.

Diane Greene thrown out just a week or so after EMC became Microsoft's Partner of the Year

Geany is a lightweight text editor for Linux based on the GTK2 toolkit. Geany supports internal and external plugins, and it excels as a source code editor, since it includes basic integrated development environment (IDE) functionality. Here's an introduction to using Geany's built-in features, including the IDE and built-in development capabilities. Geany requires only the GTK2 (>= 2.6.0) runtime libraries (including Pango, Glib, and ATK libraries), and is not dependent on any X window manager or desktop environment.

Sustainable innovation â?? creating lots of new things again and again â?? is challenging. The VAR Guy wonders: Is open source the key to sustainable tech innovation? Is open source the best way to keep a maturing company feeling vibrant and young? Before you answer, consider some of these scenarios.

A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the "community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distribution. Like most recent distributions, OpenSUSE is made up of the usual suspects, including GNOME and KDE-based desktops, Live CD and full DVD installation options, and an online repository of software that can be installed using a GUI tool.

Warrington School, in Otago, has decided to jump ship and deploy the GNU/Linux operating system with free software across the board by a target date of 2010, says the school's principal, Nathan Parker.

The threat of reprisals from Microsoft lawyers has stopped Becta, the UK's technology quango for schools, from publishing the details of the three-year megadeal it agreed with Microsoft in April. Microsoft already forbids Becta from saying how much money UK schools spend on its software. The US multinational has also forbidden the British people from knowing how much it is charging their schools for its software.

The already crowded open source mobile phone software market just got more so as Nokia has announced plans to open up the Symbian operating system. Symbian currently has the biggest installed base of any mobile OS, which makes this announcement somewhat more surprising—market leaders generally do not radically change their successful methods. What it means for the various Linux mobile phone initiatives is unclear, but it certainly shakes things up a bit.

With the combined might of WordPress and Audacity, I am now able to do OGGcasting. I'll be doing some regular shows on a weekly basis at the very least. Feel free to download the teaser, play it, copy it, and pass it around as long as you provide appropriate attribution.