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Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Ted Wallingford is lead consultant and co-founder of Best Technology Strategy LLC, and is the author of O'Reilly Media's Switching to VoIP and VoIP Hacks.

Roger Weeks has over a decade of experience in systems and network administration. He's been building Linux systems at home and in the enterprise since 1998, and recommends that you check out FreeNetworks.org if you're interested in community wireless. Roger is a coauthor of Linux Unwired and Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition.

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

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The Day The Netbook Died

On that Friday, with no warning, the little netbook failed to boot up. I couldn't even get to the BIOS. For the third time a Sylvania netbook I owned had suffered a premature hardware failure.

Seeking information on free Linux online training

I'm interested in hearing about good open-source training materials for GNU/Linux use and administration.

Four short links: 14 September 2009

WTF Is A Supercolumn? -- Cassandra is a NoSQL database, a triplestore that scales superwell. Because it's not the usual relational thing we're accustomed to, the language can be a barrier to learning: ColumnFamily, SuperColumns, and more. This post explains what's what, with examples. (via joshua on Delicious) Gov 2.0 Summit Videos -- When I grow up, I want...

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The whole time the dispute between the CentOS developers was in the news development moved forward and patches were released. CentOS was never a one man show. It was perhaps in danger of forking or a name change but it never really was anywhere near point of death.

Is Oracle Getting Ready To Kill Unbreakable Linux?

Will Unbreakable Linux be pushed to the sidelines by another open source operating system?

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When Times Get Tough, the Tough Get Tuning: Improve the Performance of Your Linux Systems

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