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Linux Devices: "
Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..."

Standalone Sysadmin: "The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I'd be a wiseguy and I replied “Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it's available for for RHEL”. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me."

Linux Planet: "Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo."

Easy Linux CDs: "ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more."

Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European
edition of the conference?

IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists."

Das U-Blog: "My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment, as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this version of KDE works out any better."

Mandriva has updated thunderbird
(multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated wget (arbitrary
code execution).

Linux Journal: "When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then."

Phoronix: "Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9..."