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About: Ksplice is practical technology for updating the Linux kernel without rebooting.

Practical Technology: "Some friends of mine recently tried to view a TV show off ABC.com and ran into a problem: they couldn't watch the show.

The video appeared to be Adobe Flash, but even though they had the new Flash Player 10 installed, they couldn't view it."

Practical Technology: "When Michael Robertson sold Linspire to Xandros, I doubt many people saw a lawsuit coming his way from former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony."

Practical Technology: "The Linux Foundation recently announced that they’d be holding a new get-together, LinuxCon and a few days later IDG announced that they were transforming LinuxWorld into OpenSource World.

My question: Will you be going to either one? Or, to any of the other major open-source shows like OSCon?"

Practical Technology: "It certainly, in the updated archive manager, File Roller, now has more support for other compressed formats such as ALZ, RZIP, CAB, and the TAR.7Z file types.

Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, also now has tabs and I, for one, find that a very useful feature."

Practical Technology: "People have this delusion that the Web is a fount of all information. That, if you look hard enough with Google and other search engines, you can find all the answers.

That's crap."

Practical Technology: "Canonical is running a survey for Ubuntu Server edition users to see how they're currently using Ubuntu and where they're using it so they can make the next version even better for Linux system administrators."

Practical Technology: "... it should come as no surprise that the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, has joined the Linux Foundation."

Practical Technology: "Ubuntu users who couldn’t stand the idea of a EULA (End User License Agreement) for the popular Firefox Web browser are going to get their way."

Practical Technology: ""We will be delivering new Linux offerings on our new Lenovo servers, and IdeaPad netbook education models, scheduled for release in September and October respectively." The IdeaPad S9, the model with Linux, however, will not be available at all to the U.S. market."