Blue GNU has been essentially out of operation for the past two weeks, due to circumstances beyond our control. We appreciate Falko for providing our readers a little something of interest in the meantime. Please look for us to start posting again Friday morning.

So you have GNU/Linux installed, and your friends are congratulating you on being the king of your computing castle. But you quickly lose that majestic feeling when you find yourself needing a Bash prompt, and start feeling like this whole GNU/Linux thing is a royal pain. The Bash prompt need not give you the feeling of having to issue royal decrees in a foreign language you've never even heard of, let alone speak fluently.

I used to switch between KDE's Kontact and GNOME's Evolution. But it's been a long time since I've looked back at the latter. I finally settled on Kontact to keep me in touch with the reality of my hectic daily schedule. See how you can keep up...

Most of us live our lives as consumers, and in most countries, regardless of politics, consumers drive the market.

At some, as yet to be determined time in the morning, our hosting service will be upgrading the MySQL server to hopefully improve the performance of the site.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project announce the requests for nominations for the 10th annual 2007 Free Software Awards. Nominations are requested by 31 October 2007.

The second Free and Open Source Software Conference is being held this year on August 25th-26th, in St. Augustin, Germany. Some 66 speakers will address issues ranging from Drupal and other web technologies to KDE 4, Open Source and Marketing, as well as Women in IT.

The GNU/Linux Matters project announced through their blog today that they will be meeting over 4 days in Madrid on August 17th. You're Invited.

Blue GNU interviews Al Chu, of the FreeIPMI project about their efforts to provide a free implementation of the IPMI specification.

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