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After emerging over the last few years, Linux has become a commonly used program. It is especially successful in the financial field, where the need for extremely quick servers is huge.

It's origin lies in an open source, enabling it to be utilized and edited by its users. Because of this, people have been allowed to adapt it to their own needs, thus not having to rely on others to improve their ease of work.

This, in turn, has created unintended improvements to the system itself, and helped connected parties as well.

It's been quite a while but I'm back in the proverbial saddle. Trying out Fedora Core 14.

Using a Latitude D630 laptop to give this one a whirl. I have been playing around with the idea of doing some development in Linux so I have installed Eclipse with support for PHP as well as Eric4 for Python development.

I am creating accounts on this machine for the boys too to see how well they do with reconciling the educational systems love for Microsoft and their home world of Linux and Windows based machines.

Well, after an upgrade to our hosted server I have finally found my way back to Linuxphile to make sure all is functioning.

I quickly discovered that mod rewrite was not functioning properly. The Cpanel upgrade broke the .htaccess files. All of the links should be functioning now.

I apologize to any who were trying to access any of the content.

I'm hoping to find some time in the near future to add content.

I am an avid supporter of Google. It is with no surprise that I found myself submitting my email address for an invitation to Google's latest product, Google Voice. Approximately two weeks after applying, after a podcast begging for an invitation I did receive the invitation.

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is now available. The folks working on Ubuntu have focused this release on boot time and user experience with the integration of many application notifications into a single unobtrusive notification window.

My laptop is setup in a dual environment. I have both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04. I switch regularly between the two operating systems throughout the day as there are tools on both systems that I need tow ork with for my job. In doing this, however, I am often creating documents in both environments that I may need while working within the other operating system.

I have several laptop and desktop computers. Depending on where I am and how well prepared I am I could be working on any of the three laptops I own, or on my father's desktop, my brother's laptop, etc. Having these varied machines to work with has necessitated a review of how I author documents.

My desire for openness with my data has led me to the Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player. The Gigabeat F series was shipped running a version of Linux. This version of the Gigabeat, however, still attempts to control media somewhat by requiring the use of the Toshiba software for transferring of songs.

The new version of Ubuntu, 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, was released two days ago. I have been waiting a while for this release of Ubuntu to check out the automatically configured eye-candy. While I was a bit disappointed with the "automatic" portion of the eye candy something production has occurred as a result of this fresh install of Ubuntu.

As I have mentioned in previous articles, I have purchased a couple Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 players. The original Gigabeat I purchased was the F40, my preferred device to this day as it runs Rockbox.

I recently purchased a broken Gigabeat S60 from Ebay. It was noted on the seller's page that the Gigabeat would boot, but with an error message. I didn't know what I was actually going to receive but had hopes that once the great folks at Rockbox ported their software to the S series Gigabeat I would be able to get the MP3 player working.