Linux

Source: F W Builder

reaper: RedHat rpms designated "...-1rh72" can be installed on both RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 systems.

Source: LInux Conf AU

Linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and one of the largest gatherings of users and developers in the Southern Hemisphere, organised by the Australian Linux community. It is not an expo for Linux products, but an opportunity for developers and groups to present their ideas amongst peers, and for the Free Software and Open Source communities to gather in general.

Source: Forbes.com

It's official. The Linux operating system has secured its position on a very short list of products that can claim cult status. Since a Finnish student posted the first lines of Linux code on the Internet in 1991, hobbyists, investors, IT executives and blue-chip companies have been fascinated by its potential.

When an i386 running Linux panics, a function in the kernel called 'panic_blink' causes the system's LEDs to blink. Andrew Rodland recently posted a creative patch to turn that steady blink into a useful message in morse code! Read the full story at KernelTrap.

L33tdawg: Sounds pretty damn sweet. :)

Source: WI(RED

Microsoft wants to control every living room across the country, making the computer the centerpiece of the home entertainment network. The Xbox, Microsoft's video-game console, has long been rumored to be at the core of that strategy, a dream that may soon come true thanks to a team of hackers who are transforming the game console into a home computer.

The rub is that the newly hacked system will run without any Microsoft software.

Source: C|NET

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory plans to build the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer for use with national security projects.
The Livermore, Calif.-based supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920 of Intel's 2.4GHz Xeon processors, with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). Each node will have 4GB of DDR SDRAM memory and 120GB of hard-disk space.

Source: Help Net Security

Source: The Register

The first Linux program to run legally on Xbox has been released, says the Xbox Linux Project. It is not clear to us what the program, which was created without the Xbox SDK, actually does, and just maybe all it does is put Tux on the Xbox screen, but still, it's progress.

Source: Mercury News

Lindows, an attempt to create a new computer operating system melding the power of Linux with the popularity of Windows, fails to offer consumers what we so desperately need: more credible alternatives to escape the iron grip of Microsoft.

Created by a start-up company in San Diego called Lindows

Source: Linux Today

So you want to make a living from Linux, do you? Well, it can be done, but it's not easy. Linux continues to gain in popularity, but someone qualified as a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) still has a much easier time finding a job.