Have you (or your friends) ever wanted to learn about Linux/UNIX and use it like a pro? The Free Software Club of Kirksville is organizing a Linux workshop that covers a topics ranging from basic to advanced on installing, using and making the best out of Linux. The workshop is scheduled to start on Sunday, 16th with an InstallFest

The version 2.6.33 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes the Nouveau driver (it’s in the staging tree), so anyone with a NVidia card should have a look. According to KernelNewbie http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges - this version also features Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), a security extension for TCP called “cookie transactions”, a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff), support for cache compression, Xen PV-on-HVM support, drivers for virtual network and graphic cards from VMWare, swappable KSM pages, and many new drivers and many small improvements and bugfixes

Now it’s easier to share things (posts, screenshots, tips,…) with everybody by posting to the FSCK website. Please send an email to the fsck-tumble email address: sonnec760|at|tumblr|dot|com.

PS: As always, plaintext works better.

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Dr. Bindner is setting up a new server. The new server is called “sand” and you should poke around and see how you like it.

In addition to the ssh and vnc access that we’ve historically used, the new service can also be accessed via the nxclient from nomachine.com (or the free qtnx client) as well as remote desktop (or rdesktop).

The two new methods seem to give much faster better graphical experiences.