Hackers Get Under Red Hat's Skin.
Open source software company Red Hat warned of a network intrusion that compromised some of the company's servers. Though Red Hat considered the advisory critical and issued updated versions of affected packages, it said that a worst-case scenario -- a hacker accessing servers used to sign Fedora or Red Hat applications distributed through their auto-update process -- did not come to pass. more... and To trust or not to trust Red Hat, that is the question and

Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. more...

Microsoft adds $100M to its SUSE Linux support tab.
Two years ago, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy $240 million worth of support vouchers for Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux operating system as part of a controversial partnership deal between the two vendors. Now Microsoft is reaching into its pocket again, to the tune of another $100 million. more...

Top 10 Firefox add-ons.
Firefox 3 may have introduced a number of new features, but it is the ability to add extra functionality with the use of extensions that remains one of its biggest assets. There are hundreds of extensions to choose from - some enable you to change the look and feel through the use of themes, while others add more features, such as weather reporting or time zones in the status bar. more...

Spend your vacation getting started with OpenStreetMap.
We have written about the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project many times, but we have yet to explain how to get started with it as a contributor. Since it is the vacation high season in the Northern Hemisphere and many more people will be hitting the maps, this is the perfect time. more...

QGIS earns a spot on GIS software map.
Quantum GIS 0.11.0, released last month, is a free geographic information system (GIS) application released under the GPL that runs on multiple platforms, including Linux. QGIS can read, edit, and export common GIS file formats. After installing it and using it to work with existing data layers available from official data repositories, performing common spatial analysis tasks, and sharing files and data with the commercial GIS products, more...

Misc.
30 Coolest and Funniest Tux Icons.
rsnapshot: rsync-Based Filesystem Snapshot.
10 must-have Linux (and not only) cheat-sheets.
Pre-installed Linux Notebooks in US.
8 Free, Open Source Tools for Video Playback and Encoding.

How To Tips.

How To Exclude Packages from being Installed and Upgraded in Debian/Ubuntu.
How To Displaying System Information On Linux Or Unix With Cfg2html.

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