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Arch Linux feels like home to me. I have used it for about 5 months now and I have no plans to stop using it.

I am from India and I started with Mandrake long back to learn programming. But after joining a job, I didn't used it for a considerable period. Now back in school, saw Suse 9.1 one fine day, since then I am using Suse.

I get a chuckle when I hear that Linux "...is not you grandmother's operating system." My wife and I are both in our 60's and grandparents.

Our survey results will see some additional tabulations before we release them. Even so, we received many outstanding posts. So, today, we'll allow you to have a look at what many of those surveyed wrote.

In this HowTo I will show how to install and configure DenyHosts. With DenyHosts you can prevent SSH dictionary attacks to your server.

We are in the final week of the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.

Paradox: As software increasingly becomes available for free, developers keep trying to foist more of it on us--along with lots of extras (call it, oh, say, spam) we don't need. In the days when we paid real dollars for software, all we got in the box was what we paid for.

News Analysis: SugarCRM adopts the Microsoft Community License, but don't look for a rush of open-source companies following SugarCRM's lead, insiders say.

Despite rumors that Red Hat engineers are working on it, Edgar"Gimli" Hucek appears to be the first to get Linux running on a Mactel.

Opinion: Real revolutions are often quiet ones. Linux and open-source banners are carried by small, startup companies.(Linux-Watch)

The engine behind Novell's SUSE Linux Openexchange Server gets feature updates with its first service patch. (Linux-Watch)

New Training Program Helps Users Optimize File Storage Management

The Boo language proves open source can make nice with Microsoft. Python-based language targets Microsoft's CLI and supports Mono.

Many people want to write but have a fear of rejection. When one understands the correct format to use, it makes it easier to articulate your ideas.

The founder of the Debian Linux project and of a company called Progeny to commercialize it has taken a new job trying to standardize elements of the open-source operating system.

Jim Starkey, the original creator of InterBase which became Firebird, just made it publicly known that he now works for MySQL AB.

After announcing military/aerospace technology six months ago, Sysgo is growing. The Germany-based provider of embedded Linux distributions, tools, and services expects 50 percent revenue growth in 2006, and a 50 percent staffing increase. Sysgo is headquartered in Mainz, Germany, with subsidiaries in Ulm, Germany; Prague, Czechoslovakia; and Paris.

A quiet revolution is taking place on a young mailing list, one that overturns years of false enmity and makes perfect sense to most free software users. Having competed for the free desktop crown since 1997, collaborating on code but never on promotion, KDE and GNOME have launched an initiative to market and promote the free desktop together.

My first encounter with Howtoforge began with "The Perfect Setup" for Debian Sarge by Falko Timme. I found a site loaded with fundamentally sound and easy to follow setups for Linux administration. This is a location on the WEB that people needing to administer Linux should bookmark. But then there's more.

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As HP claims market leadership over IBM, will the the real leader in Linux servers step forward?
HP is stepping up its interest in Linux and has set up a UK centre of excellence for Linux in Reading.
The company is also planning to set up similar centres in mainland Europe and in the US. Further details weren't available on Thursday, but it's understood that Germany and Atlanta are under consideration.