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Greetings from the lonesome October, fellow free and open source software
fans. This is the Linux newsletter, dedicated to half-priced candy on the
day after tomorrow. Here's what's new in the F/OSS world as seen on the
O'Reilly Network.

The *BSD world has had recent flurries of activity lately, with new
releases, philosophical discussions, new distributions, and the recent
acquisition of PC-BSD. A hardware provider named iXsystems bought the
desktop-capable flavor of FreeBSD. Dru Lavigne found it curious and
investigated; what resulted is an interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD
Founder) and Matt Olander (iXsystems CTO) on their reasonings and plans:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/10/23/ixsystems-pc-bsd.html

Another milestone in the world of BSD is the 11th anniversary of OpenBSD,
celebrated in part with the release of OpenBSD 4.0, right on the dot. To
commemorate the release, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed over 20 OpenBSD
developers to discuss new features as well as the ongoing skirmish against
undistributable binary blobs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/26/openbsd-40.html

Because good things come in threes, there's also a new release of the
Python programming language. Python 2.5 takes the language further in the
directions intended for Python 3000. Though you still have a couple of
years to prepare, you can use some of the new features now to see how they
improve your code. Jeff Cogswell describes the shinies, paying particular
attention to generators and contexts:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/26/python-25.html

In recent podcasts, Craig Warren Smith and Tor Norretranders discuss the
connections between spirituality, altruism, and technology:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/23/distributing-the-future.html

Phil Torrone makes a spud gun and gets hit with a potato:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/make_a_spud_gun_2.html

In weblogs this week, Curt Hibbs found as many reports on RubyConf 2006
as possible:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/blogging_about_rubyconf_2006.html

Andy Oram pondered what the new web can do for journalists and artists:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/web_20_for_journalists_and_art.html

Jeremy Jones started exploring Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy upgrade traumas:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/ubuntu_edgy_install_frustratio.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/aptget_distupgrade_broken_goin.html

Steve Mallett recommended not relying on a web API for a live demo:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/doing_a_demo_dont_rely_on_an_a_1.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6, with lots of role/type discussions:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_8.html

Ming Chow reported on his Fedora Core 6 installation:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/fedora_core_6_installation_hel.html

Chris Tyler explained new features in FC 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/whats_new_fedora_core_6_part_1.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/whats_new_fedora_core_6_part_2.html

Nitesh Dhanjani dismissed the idea of high-assurance SSL certificates:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/post.html

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Parrot's patchmonster Leo Toetsch:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/people_of_perl_leopold_toetsch.html

Carla Schroder asked for the return of her endangered man pages on Linux:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/10/i_want_my_man_pages_back.html

Tim O'Reilly writes about the painful persistence of bad data online:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_persistence_of_bad_data.html

Marc Hedlund channeled David Lynch regarding a new internet bubble:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/it_is_happening.html

Allison Randal admitted a problem with her inbox:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_problem_of.html

Now your editor goes off to tame his.

In other news, your editor and Andy Oram are looking for technical writing
professors at colleges and universities to discuss a project that will
benefit all users and developers of free and open source software. If you
have any contacts, please let us know.

Until next week,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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