raiden.net: The term "Firewall" originally came from the building trade and was typically a wall made of stones or bricks that was designed to confine a fire and protect the building by containing the fire in one place. In today's tech world, a firewall is something entirely different.

blogs.techtarget.com: If a Linux distribution is not named after a Red Hat, does it still exist? Do sports teams improve their chances with Linux-inspired monikers? Do Linux administrators need to learn fencing to keep up with the tech industry?

ostatic.com: I read a story earlier this week about a company named Aras switching from a traditional proprietary model to one involving "open source." But then the article indicated that Aras was releasing its software under a "shared source" license that was written by Microsoft. Now, to anyone in the world of open-source software, the term "shared source" is a red flag.

jpwhiting.blogspot: KHotNewstuff2 is going to be using Goya (once it moves out of kdereview and into kdeui on the 19th). So I wanted to let everyone see the new ui a bit and get some feedback.

50webs.org: Since Amarok 2 is on its way with all the fuss around it and the currently stable 1.4.9.1 version will probably be the last in the 1.x series, I decided to make a review of the last stable Amarok.

ericsbinaryworld.com/blog: So gNewSense 2.0 came out a few days ago as the gNewSense crew is tracking Ubuntu LTS releases. Of course, the bad part is that there is no upgrade path from gNewSense 1.0 to 2.0.

• XUbuntu - Day 1

• Live upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy
• Ubuntu hits mainstream Italian television
• How Ubuntu saved me a Bomb of money!
• Victory: Skype withdraws appeals case, judgement from lower court accepted
• The Bilski oral arguments - Groklaw member webster attended
• OLPC Australia: XO targeting education and definitely NO Windows
• OLPC: First Week at the two Test Schools
• Linux Tip: Tighten Up Security And Disable SSH Login For Root Account
• Book review: The power of group sharing
• a beginners linux distro
• Asus Eee PC And NX
• NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based w/ Suse Linux
• The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation
• Few Words on LaTex Fonts
• VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
• Linux in Under 5 Minutes
• How Fresh is the CPAN?
• Using a wiki for FOSS application documentation

lin08.wordpress: When in the course of digital events, it becomes necessary for the people to dissolve the proprietary bonds which have connected them with their computer operating systems and other proprietary software.

computerworlduk.com: It seems appropriate that Sweden, the original home of MySQL, should be part of the ancient Norse territories, for the MySQL open/closed code story is threatening to turn into a saga as long and as complex as Njal's.

• Discover user guides and manuals within your linux system

• Configuring Folding@home for Linux
• Synchronize your databases with SqlSync
• hideous gtk themes in kde4 sessions
• How to Install Your Graphics Drivers Under Linux
• How To Find Out If ISP Is Throttling BitTorrent Traffic
• How to prevent Linux man pages from clearing after you quit reading
• How To select fastest mirror in Ubuntu

advogato.org: Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint development conference in 2009.

techiemoe.com: This is one OS that pretty much came out of the blue. The last time I looked at Sun Microsystems' Solaris was waaay back when the only free option was Solaris "Express" beta builds.

8ez.com/drsmall/blog: As of Monday, May 4th, 2008, I completely wiped my perfectly healthy Ubuntu installation, where there was no problems, no errors, I had all the software I wanted, everything worked, the system looked beautiful, and overwrote it all with ArchLinux. That was a huge step of fear, uncertainty and doubt…

hehe2.net: In May’s issue of Linux Journal, their segment “LJ Index” featured some tidbits or trends about which countries are actually Googling “Linux.” It is always interesting where Linux is gaining public interest, which countries are falling behind.