Oracle to Buy Sun.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. more... and Oracle-Sun Merger Creates New Data Storage Player and The five biggest changes out of Sun/Oracle and Oracle may merge pieces of OpenSolaris with Linux, analysts say.

Canonical punts Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope.
Canonical this afternoon debuted its Ubuntu 9.04 release of Linux, the tenth release since the company founded the Ubuntu project in October 2004. This iteration of Ubuntu, code-named “Jaunty Jackalope,” comes with mixes designed specifically for three platforms: netbooks, desktops, and servers. more...

Profile and visualize Linux boot process with Bootchart.
Bootchart is an extremely simple, extremely handsome application that allows you to profile your Linux boot process, to measure the loading times of different services, to compare kernels and distributions, to identify bottlenecks and improve the performance of your system, and then to display the results in a professional-looking chart. more...

3 Minutes to 3 Terabytes: VIA ARTiGO and FreeNAS Store Terabytes in a Shoebox.
You could buy a NAS device from your favorite local or Internet supplier, but chances are you'll wind up with something less than what a "real" NAS has to offer. That's where VIA's ARTiGO A2000 comes in. The A2000 fits a full-featured computer with space for two 3.5" SATA drives in a package about the size of a shoebox. Add to the hardware the FreeNAS open source software and you've got a really capable storage solution. more...

Mr. DeVore Meet the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
A California Senate candidate is using a Don Henley song in a campaign video on YouTube, and when Henley sued for copyright violation, the candidate fired back that it was his first amendment rights to use the song. more...

Court jails Pirate Bay founders.
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. more...

Misc.
Shuttleworth: Oracle's Sun buy validates open source.
System76: Ubuntu PC Maker’s Revenue Up 61 Percent.
Teaching Programing Skills to Children with Logo.
Xfce 4.6.1 Released.
What's coming in glibc 2.10.
LevelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver.

How To Tips.

How To Generating Website Statistics With Piwik.
How To E-mail Encryption With GPG and Thunderbird.
How To An easy way to Spilt or Merge PDF Files in Linux.

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