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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The first and only release candidate for openSUSE 11.1 is out and ready for final testing: "The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public release .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Philip Newborough has announced the release of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the light-weight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications: "The final build of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01 is now available. This is the third release of the distribution and as the version number suggests, it is .

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "NFS-GANESHA is an NFS version 2-4 server that runs in the user address space instead of as part of the operating system kernel. Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) lets you run a filesystem in the user address space instead of as part of the Linux kernel, but the FUSE support in the Linux kernel from many Linux distributions does not allow you to export FUSE through NFS. NFS-GANESHA lets you expose FUSE through NFS without patching your kernel."

Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanetClassics: "It is still taught that Samba shares cannot be accessed across subnets. But actually Samba can cross subnets. It's easy for Linux hosts, and a bit less easy for Windows clients. But fear not, for we shall guide you through safely past the traps and pitfalls.

Source: Linux Today

CNet: "Is Google's Chrome browser mainstream?
Certainly not. But I've been curious how widespread its use is, in particular because I'm curious if I have any company in my choice to set Chrome as my default browser."

Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet Classics: "All you need to make this work are a central Linux/CUPS printer server, and one Linux PC per subnet to act as a relay printer server."

Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Below, a little ASCII art script that should run on any Linux or Unix distro. I don't know who created the original ASCII picture and I give credit to whomever it was. If this is your turkey, send me an email and I'll be happy to credit you with the catch!"

Source: Linux Today

Mad Irish: "Knowing that malicious attackers might look into your robots.txt file and explore the listings there allows you to employ a few defensive techniques, or at least provide some early warning measures. One possibility is to simply waste an attackers time."

Source: Linux Today

BeginLinux: "Nagios is a free, open-source tool that can be used to monitor network components and services. When it detects a problem, it can send alert messages by either e-mail or pager. It can also be configured so that only designated personnel can view status information for particular services or equipment. This tutorial will show you how to install Nagios 3 on an Ubuntu 8.10 server."

Source: Security DevCenter

Design and Deployment of Microsoft's Active Directory

Source: Security DevCenter

How would you like to build an Xbox 360 game, or build your own peer-to-peer application? This book will help you tackle cool software and hardware projects using a range of free Microsoft software. Now you can have some fun with C#, VB, WPF, ASP.NET, Lua, XNA Game Studio, and Popfly. If you love to tinker, but don't have time to figure it all out, Coding4Fun gives you clear, step-by-step instructions for building ten creative projects.

Source: Security DevCenter

Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts provides carefully selected Ruby scripts that are immediately useful. Learn how to streamline administrative tasks like renaming files, disabling processes, and changing permissions. After you get your feet wet creating basic scripts, author Steve Pugh will show you how to create powerful Web crawlers, security scripts, full-fledged libraries and applications, and much more.

Source: Security DevCenter

In How to Be a Geek Goddess, author Christina Tynan-Wood shares the expertise she gained while writing for magazines like PC World and PC Magazine but keeps the book light and conversational. Like advice from the geek girlfriends you always wished you had, the book explains topics in a way you'll understand: No patronizing guy bluster, unnecessary jargon, or information you aren't interested in, just the stuff you need to know to get the job done.

Source: Security DevCenter

Want to learn web design from scratch? This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to create a fully functional web site. Along the way, you'll learn how to apply web standards to make your site fast loading, easy to maintain, viewable in almost every web browser, and accessible to disabled users.

Source: Security DevCenter

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases.

Source: Security DevCenter

An inspirational and instructional guide to setting up business as a freelancer. Readers will gain the confidence, and the knowledge, that they will need ot succeed.