Here is a nice story by Joe Barr marking his 10th anniversarry of using GNU/Linux. I like the conclusion.

""Ten years on, Linux is no longer just a blip on the horizon or a cool alternative platform, or a choice made only for cost savings.

The 'Presidency' of my local LUG, the North Wales Linux User Group is coming up for change soon, as the current 'President' is leaving for somewhere in England. I'm now considering taking over the 'Presidency'. I'll only be able to do this for some 9 months as after that I'll (hopefully) be going off to University.

QUALCOMM and Mozilla Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program - QUALCOMM Incorporated and the Mozilla Foundation, today announced that future versions of Eudora® will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird™ email program. Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. [GNUs]

A note for people considering upgrading to Edgy Eft from a Dapper install which doesn't have Grub installed.

I haven't tried this, because I don't have much music on my computer, and I don't have an MP3-only portable player either. But I think it's a brilliant idea.

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Get your FLAC on with MP3FS - I don't know if the folks at Xiph.org can live day-in and day-out using only the free Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, and Theora codecs, but the rest of us routinely run into consumer devices that don't recognize and support them.