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Apple CEO Steve Jobs turns 56 today and the Apple cofounder's influence on technology and the world at large cannot be overstated

Ksplice: "One year ago, we announced the general availability of Ksplice Uptrack, a subscription service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux. Since then, a lot has happened!"

Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network.

Debian News: "Fellow Linuxers, This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release."

Using computers doesn't require any kind of special geek talents, just study and a mind open to letting some actual knowledge in.

Anyone can learn anything, despite the tireless efforts of the astrofudsters to persuade us otherwise.