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So - the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) of 2006 is over, and it was a great experience. You can find additional reports about it at their Wiki page, and they also provide links to their flickr photo album and other pictures.

Kernel developer Dave Miller made it: He successfully booted an Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper Drake prerelease (with kernel 2.6.16) on the Sun Fire T2000 with the UltraSPARC T1.

Yes. And “The Death of Fiber-Optic Networks As We Know Them”. These are chapters in a book called the WiMAX Handbook, written by Frank Ohrtman.

The biweekly german c’t magazine compared several socket 939 mainboards with built-in graphics, and, according to c’t mag, Linux just runs fine on it.

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in Europe.

The Korean government plans to select a city and a university late next month where open-source software like Linux will become the mainstream operating programs.

The german federal ministry of the interior (Bundesministerium des Inneren) made the second edition of their Migration Guide available in english.

LXer reports of a declaration of war against Google from cDc (Cult of the dead cow), a prominent hacker group who in 1998 invented Back Orifice, one of the first rootkits against Micro$oft’s Windows operating system. They link to the original article, which has some nice layouts for t-shirts which are supposed to support the campaign.

On Monday, SJVN (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a long time senior journalist) reported about a new study which proves that Linux systems are much more affordable and easier to administer than their Windows counterparts.

Testing a printer recommended by linuxprinting.org: the HP Deskjet 6840. German customers please ask HP why they don’t want to sell it anymore.

I swapped our companies’ old Snapgear Lite+ against my Linksys WRT54G, which I now use as a VPN endpoint to our companies’ Astaro firewall. In addition to the features the Snapgear had already, I can now monitor the thing with SNMP, and the hardware is about 4-5 times faster than what I had before.

From idea/demand to test deployment in 3 hours. - thanks to Debian and FOSS.

There were times when we had 8 bit processors with a clock rate of 1MHz, and most of the time, these processors were waiting for us, not us for them.

I recently reported on a test of a Dell computer and I wrote a Howto for the Linksys WRT54G to terminate an IPSec VPN tunnel to our companies’ firewall. I've updates to both accounts .

It’s a lot easier to install Ubuntu on a new Dell Optiplex GX620 than it is to install Windows onto the same machine.

I am the network administrator for a healthcare company. When I joined that company, there was internet access through ISDN dial-in (PPP), which was done by a SuSE linux box some guy had set up. But my boss wanted something better, so we took a little time to investigate.

We decided for SDSL and a commercial firewall (Astaro), which is based on free and open source. That was a clever decision, as it now shows.

wjl explains - for beginners to intermediates - how he could prevent disaster using just Open Source and nothing else.

Today is a good day. The maybe best, maybe most free, and pretty sure most modular Linux distribution for our favourite routers was just upgraded.