Details of an attractive Linux job opportunity have been posted at our forums.

Want a version of Linux for your Intel Atom powered “NetBook” – aka Asus Eee PC type subnotebook? Canonical hopes that Ubuntu Remix will fit the bill for OEMs – and presumably users, too - and has launched it at Computex in Taiwan. Will it?

Novell has released the last public version of OpenSuse 11.0 for testing — but significant problems still need to be ironed out before the software's final release later this month.

Exherbo is a distribution designed for people who know what they're doing with Linux. It is inspired in many places by Gentoo -- in particular, it supports flexible source-based installation with up-front configuration.

ASUS is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers.

Your friends have been telling you to try out Ubuntu; forget the Microsoft proprietary operating system and liberate your computer. Yet, it's not such smooth sailing. Sure, you can download the Ubuntu CD, or get handed one, but once you're sitting at a login prompt what then? What can you actually do with this thing?

Users of Red Hat Inc.'s Fedora who wanted an easier way to use the popular and free community-supported Linux operating system on portable USB drives have had their wishes granted.

The next version of the Fedora Linux distribution, Fedora 9 “Sulphur”, has been leaked into the public domain due to a misconfiguration in one of the European download mirrors.

The Linux Equivalents to Windows Software series now contains 226 entries, listing the finest Linux software available.

Read about our latest addition: Mercury Messenger

In case you missed our announcement, also check out our 80 of the Best Linux Security Applications.

In a muted show of publicity from a quiet corner of the open source development community, comes news this week that security appliance vendor Astaro Corporation has been recognised as the ninth most active employer for changesets produced in the new Linux 2.6.25 release.

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