[Link] How-to Make a GRUB Background Image

MakeUseOf.com (Nov 29, 2008)

<How To Create A Custom Splashimage For GRUB>

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Advisory

Ubuntu

Ubuntu has released a security advisory (below), detailing 9 potential kernel vulnerabilities. The advisory appears to encompass all Ubuntu's and suggests a kernel image upgrade. This will require a reboot and require a reinstall of all third party kernel modules that are installed.

<Ubuntu: USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities> (Nov 27, 2008)

[Link] Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure

ARS Technica (Oct 9, 2008)

<Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure>

Which Linux Distros Are Dying

  An interesting post at CodingExperiments.com has been circulating for a couple days. It has graphed Google search trends for Linux distribution names. Showing a downward trend in Google searches for Debain, Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Slackware, and 'Linux' it's self. It shows a interesting gain for 'OpenSUSE', despite the drop in SUSE, and the expected gain dwarfing all others for Ubuntu.

View the whole article and graphs:
<CodingExperiments.com - Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?> June 30th, 2008

<Found noteworthy by Linux Today>

The Next Ubuntu Announced

Planning for the 9th Ubuntu release is announced:

"And so I'd like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version number 8.10."

(It seems an ibex is a wild mountain goat with large recurved horns.)

<The Announcement>