Ubuntu Ur Doin' It Wrong..

Fabian Scherschel argues that Canonical is moving in the wrong direction with Ubuntu.

More here: http://dehype.org/2012/ubuntu-design/

Raspberry Pi Pricing

This thing is really taking off, 200,000 registered expressions of interest (10 new registrations per minute).  Other god news: the Raspberry will cost AU$55 delivered to your door.

Raspberry Pi Pricing Clarification

10 Free VPN Services

10 Free VPN Services that can assist in watching or listening to hard to get content.

Four Awesome Toolkits

 

Four Linux distro's that should form part of every geeks toolkit.
Two of the distro's are bootable Utility CD images (or USB images) that can be used to repair, backup, clone test and even reset Windows passwords.  Utilities disks are godsends and can be used on a range of systems.
Two other distro's handle security (Backtrack) or can act as a Router Firewall (pfSense).  The last distro is a Small Business Server that can be setup with DNS, DHCP, Email, Users, LDAP, shared folders, Intrusion detection and more. 

Utilities
(Repair, Backup, clone test and reset Windows passwords etc.)
Parted Magic: http://partedmagic.com/doku.php
Trinity Rescue: http://trinityhome.org/ 

Security tools
Backtrack (Network Security): http://www.backtrack-linux.org/
pfSense (BSD Router Firewall): http://www.pfsense.org/ 

Small Business Server
Zentyal: http://www.zentyal.org/

More here: projectz.me - Blog - Linux Tools for the Sysadmins Toolkit.

Android on A Netbook

Interesting article about installing Android on Netbooks using the Android-x86 project.  The project's download page listed releases of Android 2.2 and 2.3 and an RC for Ice Cream Sandwich.  No idea how stable this is but it's certainly worth a look.

Read about it here: Free Software Magazine.

Read about one persons experience of installing on a Samsung N110 netbook

Linux on the Mac

Got an old Macbook or iBook that needs to be revitalized?  Yup, Linux to the rescue.

Mac » penguinppc.org

Linux USB Builder for Mac

The nice people over at Penguintosh have created a Linux USB Creator.  Allows you to select a linux distribution (either from a list or browse for a Local ISO file) and then installs it to a USB device (complete with Bootloader).

Only works with OSX Lion (at this stage).

Download here & more information available here: