Software Freedom Day 2008.
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. It is a "world wide celebration of Free and Open Source Software and the community behind it." more...

How free software makes money!
While Microsoft keeps churning out newer and newer versions of Windows at more and more unreasonable prices, the ‘Free Software Movement’ marches on. Ever wondered why a perfectly respectable system like Ubuntu Linux ships completely free of cost all the way from Africa? more...

Sun releases source code for xVM hypervisor.
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release the code for its open-source server virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month. more... and Sun updates xVM virtualization software.

VirtualBox 2.0.
SUN released a new major release of their virtual machine software VirtualBox. Highlights in this release are 64bit guest support, a new GUI and also an enterprise subscription model. more...

Boxee aims to shake up the home theater.
Boxee is a new entrant into the increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's eponymous application is billed as a "social media center" -- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user. Boxee has bigger goals in mind, but you can take an early look at it now by applying for the invitation-only testing program. more... and Boxee, a media center for the modern world.

Automatic backup for sporadically connected clients with Box Backup.
If you're a frequent business traveler who keeps important company files on your laptop, using a centralized management solution to back up files automatically during a fixed time interval won't work. Instead, consider Box Backup, which backs up files from a laptop directly to a backup server over an encrypted link. more...

Dropbox for Linux Adds Online Backup to Desktop.
Dropbox, the free, web-based backup service previously available only for Windows and Mac computers, has added a free, open-source client for Linux to its offerings. more...

Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets.
Dell is using the Linux operating system and Intel processors including the Atom in new Vostro PCs for emerging markets more... and New Vostro Systems for Emerging Economies: Ubuntu in More Countries.

Google Launches New Browser.
Google has launched a new open source browser, Chrome. The new browser boasts a minimalistic UI, a new Javascript engine dubbed V8, and sandboxed tabs to prevent one tab from crashing the browser. Chrome uses components from Apple's webkit and Mozilla Firefox. more... and The Google Chrome comic book.

Magazine.
Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community Magazine Issue 16 and pdf.

Misc.
LUGs Emphasize the "Festive" at Ohio LinuxFest.
10 Beautiful Themes for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
Top Free Linux Online Courses.
21 of the Best Free to Download Closed-Source Applications.
The 7 Best Closed-Source Apps for Linux.
BasKet - opensource note pad for openSUSE.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Review.
Movie industry wary of Real DVD ripper.
Now playing: DVD movies, Windows audio files on Ubuntu Linux.
Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements.

How To Tips.

How To Photo KDE Tutorial 1-3: White balance.
How To Managing Active Directory users under Linux with adtool.
How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files (.vmdk).
How To PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support in Ubuntu 8.04.
How To Solve all PulseAudio-related issues in Ubuntu.
How To Installing VirtualBox 2.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop.
How To Checking Package Dependencies with apt-rdepends On Debian/Ubuntu.
How To Desktop recording made easy with Byzanz in Ubuntu.

See you next Thursday 7 P.M. at 420 Cafe, 420 Washington Ave, Eau Claire, WI.

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