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Tech Treasures: "There are security risks and data ownership issues that you have to take into consideration. To get another point of view on the matter, I talked to John Newton, who is the Chairman and CTO at open source content management Alfresco "

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Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf. These are five things that I wish Linux had."

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I thought it was interesting that there's actually a site out on the Internet that will take a short message from you and encode it into SPAM. It'll even decode the SPAM it creates, so your buddies can figure out what you've actually sent them."

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OSNews: "Being a Linux junkie, I thought it is time to venture into the BSD arena. Recently the PC-BSD team released their latest stable version (PC-BSD 7) code-named Fibonacci Edition."

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Kevin Carmony's blog: "To this day, Michael Robertson has yet to explain to the 100 some-odd shareholders what happened with the millions of dollars in cash and assets that were owned by Linspire just a few short months ago."

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Midnight-cafe: "Below is command to find out number of connections to each ports which are in use using netstat & cut."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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ivoras writes "An interview with MSI's director of US Sales, Andy Tung, contains this interesting snippet: "We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven't really talked about it much until now. Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don't know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realizing that it's not what they are used to. They don't want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.