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OStatic: "We're in the process of putting up a dedicated repository for all of these, but in the meantime, here are 12 of our most popular educational roundup posts."

Linux Journal's Flickr pool regularly brings in fun photos from readers around the world.

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Serverwatch: "Paul Rubens How long does it take to spot a bug in an operating system? The answer, it seems, can be as long as 33 years.

At least, that was the case with a recently discovered bug in the yacc parser generator originally developed at AT&T back in the 1970s and discovered recently by OpenBSD developer Otto Moerbeek."

Linux Journal's Flickr pool regularly brings in fun photos from readers around the world.

We encourage you to add to the pool anything "Linux-ey" (up for interpretation but frankly that's half of the fun).

Here are some of the most recent additions:

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Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Last week, Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, stated in an interview that much of the current animosity from the open source community toward Sun has its origins in the way Sun used to treat the community..."

Enterprise Unix Roundup: "If you are someone like this who just likes the status quo, then the theme of the recent report from Gartner outlining the future of the operating system (OS) market may be a bit unsettling to you: Increased disruption lies ahead, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop it..."

Roundup: With the 18-month gap in OpenSSL publicly discovered, already tools built to exploit the not-so-random keys have surfaced.

Computerworld details the threat, and Computerworld Australia gives tips on defending against this and other brute-force attacks.

Roundup: Tiemann asks: without open source, what will OLPC have? Blankenhorn calls OLPC a "failure," but believes it's not an indictment of Linux's future; meanwhile Dawson opines that we owe a lot to OLPC's trailblazing.

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Enterprise Unix Roundup: "When faced with a choice between Solaris and Linux, Sun will always choose... both..."

Roundup: "Mandriva started life in July 1998 (formally known as Linux-Mandrake) as a KDE distro based on Red Hat.

That was nearly 10 years ago..."