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ISP-Planet: "Marty Roesch developed the open source intrusion detection system Snort back in 1998. Three years later, Roesch launched a company, Sourcefire, Inc., to offer a commercial version. "If you think of a car, the engine itself is Snort; the whole car is Sourcefire..."

Crashsystems: "...software updates typically demand an Internet connection, which can make updating difficult if not impossible. There is now a solution though, a new program called Keryx."

Free Software Magazine: "I've been using Fedora (Core and all) on and off for a few years now and its parsimonious attitudes to codecs notwithstanding, the thing that always reduces me to a whimpering, pleading wreck is watching Yum installing a piece of software. I can forgive its tendency to handhold and even to confabulate, but Yum moves with all the speed of a treacle flow at the North Pole."

AnarchismToday: "All in all, 2008 was a pretty good year for Linux, and I'm hopeful 2009 will be even better. Some of the notable changes that come to mind: "

Blog of Helios: "As important as the numbers must be, it's not near as important as something else. Faces and Names. John Adam, Stacy Lynn, Jennifer, Michael Roy, Juanita..."

ZDNet AU: "The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool."

Linux Magazine: "A few server admins had reported Linux crashes right at the New Year's Eve countdown. Linux developers are currently investigating if they had anything to do with the leap second phenomenon."

Linutop Mag: "Flickr offers a vast collection of photos you can use with your OpenOffice.org documents, but trawling hundreds, if not thousands of photos in order to find the right one can be a rather tedious and time-consuming affair. Fortunately, the CCOOo extension can help you to find a photo you like on Flickr without leaving the convenience of your favorite productivity suite."

OStatic: "And though I like seeing how my hardware and software interact, it is preferable to have things "just work," so I can get what I need done, and then spend the time I saved doing so leisurely poking at my application's innards. There's an inherent danger in the "just works" philosophy, however."

TechRadar: "25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out."

LinuxLinks: "A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an essential tool in managing file systems."

BeginLinux: "Here is a scenario where you have Windows users who need to log into an encrypted directory that is mounted on a Linux Samba share. This provides an interesting option for security."

Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Linux will continue its soaring success in 2009. Yes, Linux is free and free is good but what about its other advantages over commercial Unix flavors and Windows? Here are the top seven reasons why Linux will continue to smash the competition in the face of the economy, the Cloud, and the smart administrator."

Phoronix: "Initial reviews of these new AMD Opteron processors have been very positive, but how do these chips perform with Linux? In this article we have our hands on a few of the fastest Shanghais, the AMD Opteron 2384 clocked at 2.7GHz, as we see how well they compare to the older "Barcelona" Opteron processors."

Happy Assassin: "Tethering is using a cellphone with a data connection as a modem for a computer, connected by a USB cable, so you can access the Internet from the computer. On Linux, the Barry suite, created by Net Direct, lets you do this with most models of the popular Blackberry line of smartphones, along with several other things."

No Thick Manuals: "When you splashed out for a new swanky mouse like Logitech VX Nano, you sure want to make the most out of your investment, which means making its programmable buttons work. The problem is, however, that many Linux distributions recognize most mice as a generic pointing device, so none of the fancy extra buttons work right out of the box. Fortunately, the btnx utility can help you to turn your mouse into a versatile tool it meant to be."

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "It's actually almost 9pm on New Year's day and I'm just over my initial waking stupor. Surprisingly, I actually had a clear thought while I was cursing myself for not pre-writing the one post I "knew" I'd be too zonked to write coherently ;) In any event, I fixed the original Yahoo CLI search index rank script that we put out last week..."

Cyber Cynic: "Google has been slowly, but surely, displacing Microsoft as the number one PC technology company. Google has done it by misdirection. Instead of taking Microsoft head-on in desktops, Google first consolidated their hold on Web search and only then started moving into Web-based desktop applications."

Computing Tech: "When your Linux system is installed, often a prompt is set to contain more than just a dollar sign or pound sign. For example, in Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, your prompt is set to include the following information: your username, your hostname, and the base name of your current working directory."

Community, Incorporated: "Metered computing, as outlined by Microsoft in a patent application, isn't the worst idea I've heard -- but it ranks up there with other spectacular failures like the original DivX, AOL dial-up, and the 2008 Detroit Lions."