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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 4: "On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4. Bringing a more accessible, easy-to-use and fast way of doing business and home computing in a web 2.0 flavour .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Ken Smith announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.1: "FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the release candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from now. We might be doing it .

Source: Linux Today

EeeUser: "Like many people, i have tried to get a "real" install of Ubuntu on my 2G Surf, but found myself reinstalling the default Xandros OS because of limited space on the SSD. The following tutorial will enable you to have an honest to goodness Ubuntu install that will do all the basic tasks you need."

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "High-performance file systems such as Panasas PanFS, Sun QFS, Quantum StorNext, IBM GPFS and HP File Services can add plenty of value to storage implementations"

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Using pyuno you can script OpenOffice with Python. Pyuno allows you to create macros inside OpenOffice and it also allows you to create external Python scripts that talk to a running copy of OpenOffice."

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "2008 saw Windows' market share drop to less than 90 percent. Should you switch to Mac or Linux, too?"

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Google Maps gives you a quick and easy way to add maps to your Web site, but when you're using Google's API, your ability to display other data is limited. If you have your own data you want to display, or data from sources other than Google, OpenLayers, an open source JavaScript library, can give you more options."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Loop: "In case you forgot to put the Linux community on your list or in case you just couldn't find anything for them, you're in luck. There’s a last minute gift opportunity:"

Source: ONLamp.com

Below is my first podcast for this page. It's technically not my first podcast for O'Reilly, because a couple of years ago (Summer, 2006), Andy Oram and I sat down and created a podcast about the LPI Linux in a

Source: ONLamp.com

The importance of the differences among web application platforms like .NET, JSP, PHP, etc. drops dramatically under the cloud computing paradigm. Which architecture you choose really comes down to one question: what kind of programming and support resources do you have? If the answer is "Microsoft technologies", however, you should be aware of the Microsoft cloud tax.

Source: ONLamp.com

I recently moved down to Wellington, New Zealand, and was excited to learn that Python is very popular on this side of the world. A few of us on the NZPUG mailing list decided to arrange a meeting a local

Source: Security DevCenter

It's Christmas Eve as I write this, but after having put the children to bed and turning off the tree lights, I find that my thoughts are not on Santa Claus tonight at least not in a very positive way.

Source: Security DevCenter

A parable about the Internet's past, present, and future:
The Ghosts of Internet Time.
Still relevant today, nine years after I wrote it