Linux Journal has an interesting article about how to set up Linux for your grannie. There are some great ideas to consider there.

Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.

From http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s electronic voting systems have “critical security failures” which could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State, according to a review of the systems commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

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Now this is just plain bizarre:
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"Totally bogus dude" gets my points for insight on why the GPLv3 is not going down well in some circles. My take: it's a very deliberate effort by the FSF to tip the balance of copyright law from the copyright holder towards the user. (Obviously this balance can only be affected to the extent that the GPLv3 applies to a work.)

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I spent some time this morning updating my wiki with notes on the major Linux distributions.

Here's a ZDNet post about crackers getting information from Microsoft's own security advisories and using it to exploit unpatched systems. Examples like this serve to highlight an important principle (that Microsoft and others in the so-called "responsible disclosure" camp don't seem to understand): you cannot stop the bad guys from finding out about vulnerabilities.

Vendors of vulnerable products should:

1. Inform everyone affected by the vulnerability immediately; detail any known workarounds or mitigations.
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Jason Brooks at eWeek writes a useful perspective on Red Hat's approach to RHEL licensing and its implications for CentOS.

I couldn't agree more.  Linux companies should be making it easier to deploy their products, not harder.  When people ask me what distribution they should use for their server, i say Debian (due to its stability and extreme ease of installation and administration) unless they have a significant investment in Red Hat or Novell skills already.
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