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Jon Ellch -- aka Johnny Cache -- was one of the presenters of the now infamous "faux disclosure" at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. Ellch and co-presenter Dave Maynor have gone silent since then, fueling speculation that the entire presentation may have been a hoax. Ellch finally broke the silence in an email to the Daily Dave security mailing list over the weekend, and one thing is clear: he is chafing under the cone of silence which has been placed over the two of them.

A very cool 3D animation of the Linux Kernel

2X has announced the release of 2X TerminalServer for Linux, an open source terminal server for Linux, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection.

You can have the coolest desktop widget theme, the most enlightened colors combination, and a very nice background wallpaper. Your desktop still won't look professional, clean, beautiful, and most important, comfortable, without good fonts.

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems.

The South African NGO sector is to petition the South African government to adopt free and open source software. The petition says the move to free software is important to reduce dependence on foreign proprietary software.

The SoftConsole is a free software development environment for the CoreMP7, the soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Based on the open-source Eclipse integrated design environment (IDE) and ARM7 GNU compiler and debugger, SoftConsole provides a cost-effective and reliable way to write and debug software programs for CoreMP7.

The Hyperwords Company releases version 1.5 of its web browser enhancer. The Hyperwords Company is a US company commercializing the work it carries out in London, with architectural programming performed in Russia. Hyperwords has been listed in PC World's "101 best freebies."

A progressive Welsh Council will use Open Source software to centralise the e-mail usage of its primary and secondary schools. Sirius Corporation, the UK's leading independent Open Source specialist, has been appointed to build a system with the potential to host a mailbox for every student and teacher in Carmarthenshire (some 40,000 users).

Oracle has released another free software tool for building, deploying and managing secure Web applications using only a Web browser. The tool makes it easier for users with limited programming experience to develop software for the Web that can be deployed quickly to up to thousands of users.

Free software, skills and bandwidth are the key anchors of a successful ICT programme. This is what Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth told the delegates at the ISPA iWeek conference in Midrand this morning.

This week we are giving away a copy of The Linux® Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures AND a copy of Linux® Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques.

Today is Labor Day in the USA, a holiday on which we honor workers by taking a day off. That makes about as much sense as ... well, you fill in the blank. We'll be back with new features tomorrow.

From the days when installing a Linux distribution required a 300-page bible, to the days of Live CDs, the question "How do I learn Linux?" doesn't seem to have a ready answer. That's probably because the question itself is a little vague. If you want to learn how to use a Linux distribution, trying out one should help you. If as a network or system administrator you want to learn how to manage one, the SAG and NAG guides should get you started. But if you want to learn how a Linux distribution works, how it interacts with all the pieces of free software internally, then you need to lock yourself in a room for a weekend with a copy of Linux From Scratch.

The recent launch of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 put Xen into the commercial mainstream. If you haven’t come across it, Xen is a fledgling open-source server virtualisation technology. SLES 10 is the first commercially supported operating system to include Xen, but it won’t be the last.

The government inks a deal with Intel to power some 27,000 computers with open source software.

Welcome to this year's 35th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Following a new release of Gentoo Linux last week, another popular "geek" project is likely to announce a major new version this week. Slackware Linux, the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution, has been through no fewer than four release candidates, so the final version can't be far away. Also expected later this week - GNOME 2.16. In other news, Linspire scraps the annual fee for its software repository, Ubuntu contributors keep enhancing their favourite distribution with extra software, services and even a new start-up script, and the NetBSD world is rocked by accusations of mismanagement by one of the project's founders. We also have the pleasure to announce that DistroWatch has once again been voted one of the "Top 101" web sites by PC Magazine and that the August 2006 donation of US$350 goes to the Puppy Linux project. Happy reading!

Unlike some people, I'm not a Mac or a PC guy - I'm a Mac and a PC guy. There's room for both options in this world, and there doesn't have to be a bitter rivalry between both sets of users. In fact, I think you're only firing on all creative and productive cylinders if you use both (or all three, if you include Linux).

Zimbra is lobbying for an Ajax standard that lets several users simultaneously alter dynamic content--spreadsheets, charts, texts, or Web site information--through an online interface.

Google last week released in beta a bundle of online communications tools that corporate users can customize for their domains. They include e-mail, instant messaging and calendars.

[Might be of peripheral interest to our readers - dcparris]