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Notacon 3 was held on April 7-9 at the Holiday Inn Select City Center in downtown Cleveland. It's about 180 miles from my place in Detroit so I decided to drive. Thanks to multiple construction zones and Cleveland's complicated freeway layout I was late and missed the opening ceremonies which had started at 1pm. Unless you live near Cleveland its probably less hassle to fly in. However, the return trip was a lot easier.

Ubuntu is a pretty interesting Linux distribution isn't it? I mean, no other take on Linux has shot so high so fast. Nobody has single-handedly turned the desktop Linux world over on its ear like Ubuntu has. Nobody. What makes it so special? What sets it apart from the hundreds of other distros on the market today? Well, we're here to take a look at the latest pre-release copy of what is to become Ubuntu 6.04... Flight 5.

Tux needs to get laid more, at least if free open source software is going to mature and grab its place in the multi-billion dollar sex tech industry. As this candid and highly personal interview with Wired.com Sex Drive columnist Regina Lynn explains, the sex tech industry is a vast and important business network, driving billions of dollars and millions of lines of code every year into technology that interoperates with the desktop PC. For the short term, much of that code is proprietary, and much of the content is DRM'd. It's time for Tux to grab that situation by the balls, and turn the sex tech industry upside down, in much the same way he has done in other areas of high tech.

Mad Penguin brings us the second and final installment in their "Tux in Retail" series (the first installment was covered on Slashdot), in which they interview Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony; Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos; Mepis Linux founder Warren Woodford; and Kevin Jones, Micro Center Vice President of Merchandising, to get their take Tux's jump into big box retail.

Free open source software is making slow in-roads into the world of big box retail. This article is the first of a series of two Mad Penguin articles which take a detailed look inside the world of retail as Tux is experiencing it. Today, in Section One Mad Penguin goes shopping to see what can be seen in four retail big box stores in the San Francisco Bay Area... read the full article with in-store videos here

There are many warriors in the battle for reigning king of the Linux desktop, and if you need proof, Distrowatch.com is proof positive that almost everyone is in the game. The top ten seem to be reserved for the best of the best, and the distro we're looking at today is one of them: MEPIS Linux. Currently they are holding steady at #5 on the Distrowatch page hit ranking chart, and are in the company of giants such as Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, and SUSE Linux. This means they must have something to offer us in terms of usability and stability on the desktop, right? Well, we're here to find out. Read on for the experience I had running this highly regarded distribution...