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With the departure of Jono Bacon as the community leader at Ubuntu, names for his replacement are flying like shuttlecocks over a badminton net. Who will it be? While Larry the Free Software Guy places his bet on California LoCo leader Nathan Haines, he really thinks the next Jono will be Canonical engineering chief Alan Pope.

With more than 100 exhibitors and about 95 speakers at SCALE 11X this weekend, there's a lot to do and see. But when the sun goes down, the sessions end and the expo hall closes, the fun really begins for the attendees.

Kyle Rankin gets the nod from the SCALE staff to give the second keynote at SCALE 11X in February. Rankin joins Matthew Garrett in keynoting the 11th annual first-of-the-year Linux expo in North America next month.

With Windows 8 being released to the public Friday for a rousing $80, Larry the Free Software Guy takes the suggestion of a CrunchBang forum poster named "merelyjim" to spend his money more wisely in the FOSS realm, and urges others to think about doing the same.

In response to the TechCrunch article entitled, "Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth Tires Of Critics, Moves Key Ubuntu Developments Out Of Public Eye," Larry the Free Software Guy wonders aloud, "Was it something I said?"

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling.

Now that Ohio Linux Fest is in the books, we get to set our sights on Linux/FOSS events for next year. Starting in February, we get to turn it up to 11 -- as in SCALE 11X, which is being held on the Presidents Day weekend at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. Registration? Open. Call for Papers? Deadline is Dec. 10. Keynote? One of two chosen so far. Are you ready?

Have something to say? Working on a project others should know about? Get those papers ready: The Call for Papers for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11x is now underway.

A wide spectrum of topics will be covered at Texas Linux Fest 2012, and the event announces the session speakers have been chosen for the Aug. 3-4 expo in San Antonio.

While putting on his "Linus T. speaks for me" T-shirt, Larry the Free Software Guy suggests there's really only one response to the recent Linus Torvalds-Nvidia hubbub: Yawn.

It has been brought to Larry the Free Software Guy's attention that he has been somewhat hard on a particular Linux distro and its esteemed project leader. He may have said some mean and unfair things about this distro and its leader. So he makes amends here.

Larry the Free Software Guy apologizes to No Starch Press for taking so long to review "The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction" by William E. Shotts, Jr. It's not that he reads slowly, it's just that the book was so interesting that he had to do most of the command-line things he learned in the book that was as entertaining as it was educational.

Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, and Amber Graner, User Experience and Community Specialist for Linaro, keynote the second annual Indiana Linux Fest in Indianapolis on the weekend of April 13-15. ILF hosts a wide range of talks, has exhibitors and offers certification testing.

The HeliOS Project's Ken Starks, who is currently battling neck and throat cancer, gives an interview to update folks on his condition and how it affects the project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area.

High performance and high definition all in one laptop bundle? ZaReason supplies that -- and more -- in their latest laptop offering, the Verix 2.5, which was just released by the Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux computer maker.

Joe Brockmeier wrote an interesting piece on ReadWrite entitled "What We Lose in a post-PC World," and Larry the Free Software Guy hopes, at least, that Hallmark is ramping up the greeting card presses for the dawning of the new age, and the others that accompany it.

The Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 10X is putting the final touches on the first-of-the-year Linux expo in North America. Games? SCALE has them, as well as classes at SCALE U and the rapid-fire UpSCALE talks and more.

In writing a blog item several days ago about the naming conventions of some distros, Larry the Free Software Guy gave further thought to the actual names of some distros and FOSS programs themselves, and how some are in desperate need of change. Among a chosen few, one special example would be that X11 window manager with a name that only a urologist could love.

A PC World writer glosses over the naming conventions in Linux distros without going into the detail they rightfully deserve. So Larry the Free Software Guy gives her a hand, expanding on the how and why, from the perspective of digital anthropology, release names are as important as they are humorous.

After a week of testing the hardware, Larry the Free Software Guy found only one glaring downside to the ZaReason Limbo 5440 desktop: having to return it back to ZaReason after the review. The Week in Limbo series wraps up with this epilogue, which includes a new-found love for Linux-based hardware and deep thanks to ZaReason CTO Earl Malmrose and his engineering staff for making such great Linux hardware.