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Open Source Convention 2009

Save the Date for OSCON, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California July 20-24, 2009. In its eleventh year, OSCON looks at sustaining, applying, and expanding Open Source to change the world. Join over 3,000 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. Early Registration opens in March. Be sure to sign up for the OSCON newsletter for all the latest developments. Remember to put OSCON 2009 on your calendar.

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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.

Richard Edward Horner is an open source systems engineer, concert music composer and electric guitar virtuoso living in New York City.

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Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Series

This course series targets both beginning and intermediate Linux/Unix users who want to acquire advanced system administration skills, and to back those skills up with a Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.

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

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Linux News & Commentary

Favorite Linux Book of All Time: Linux in a Nutshell

By Kathryn Barrett
May 1, 2009

The Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards take the pulse of the Linux community, allowing readers to choose their favorites in a number of categories, and write-ins also are accepted. This year, more than 6,000 individuals voted for their favorite Linux solutions—one of the biggest turnouts in in Linux Journal history. And Linux in a Nutshell won the award for Favorite Linux Book of All Time. Our thanks to everyone who voted for this book. We think it's a classic and we're glad that you do, too!

Data chef: SPSS Tripe Consommé

By Uche Ogbuji
May 1, 2009

The data chef discusses translation of data from SPSS format, for those who don't have a licensed copy at hand.

A Linux Netbook Done The Right Way: the Sylvania g Netbook Meso

By Caitlyn Martin
April 1, 2009

In just over two months of use so far I have been very impressed with the Sylvania g Netbook Meso. None of the issues, hardware or software, that I encountered with the original g Netbook, are seen in the somewhat newer model. The Meso has proven to be an upgrade in performance, in reliability, and most definitely in the area of software.

Linux Performance: Different Distributions, Very Different Results

By Caitlyn Martin
March 9, 2009

I almost invariably get a comment to the effect that all Linux distros are essentially the same: running the same kernel, the same libraries, the same filesystems. Performance should be essentially the same, right? The answer is a resounding no. The performance results of different distributions, even ones running the same kernel version, the same core libraries, and the same filesystem can be very, very different.

Improved Linux Screen Space Management With PekWM

By Caitlyn Martin
March 7, 2009

PekWM offers an additional solution: window grouping. It allows a variety of different applications to be grouped together in a single window. Most everyone is familiar with tabbed browsing by now. Window grouping takes this one step further. When window grouping is used in PekWM the title bar in the window manager is segmented with each section effectively acting like a tab.

Windows or Linux? A case of machine ignorance

By Andy Oram
March 1, 2009

Our artist at O'Reilly was spell-checking the text in a drawing and got a strange recommendation. Perhaps Adobe is little behind the times, not recognizing Linux as a word, but where did the recommendation for Windows come from?

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