Asus will released its new stand alone desktop pc called Ebox, it will be sold as a standalone device minus peripherals (keyboard, monitor etc), have a 160GB solid state (no moving parts) hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and will run on Linux operating systems.

Video presented by Shawn Powers of Linux journal. He tells the story of Ubuntu and his family of distributions as they search for their identities.

I found this great tutorial on how you can create a secure tunnel when connecting to your MySQL database using MySQL Administrator a GUI for connecting to SQL database.

Tools Needed:

• Putty
• MySQL Administrator

view complete tutorial here…

Linux is all about choice, and this extends to the technology that makes the file system work. Unlike with Windows, where you can choose between just NTFS and FAT32 (with the emphasis being on NTFS), Linux offers many different types of file system technology. Each is designed for varying tasks. Most are scalable, however, which means that they will work just as happily on a desktop PC as on a massive cluster of computers.
Fedora uses the ext3 file system. This is a popular choice among distros, although the SUSE distro uses the
reiserfs system. People are constantly arguing about which file system is best. The principal measuring stick is performance.

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