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Lower the Lifeboats and hoist the Mains'l, this is going to be a rough ride. While companies worldwide look for ways to reduce costs, shed dead weight from their labor resources and streamline their businesses, it makes me wonder if Linux will survive the global economic meltdown. Oh, I know it will survive in terms of us geeks who use it and tout its goodness. It will survive in ISP data centers, some cloud-based businesses and as the de facto platform for virtualization. But will businesses such as hospitals, law firms, trucking companies and retail stores adopt it for their productive operating system of choice?

The NTP service that uses network-time servers to keep your computer's clock from drifting is another thing that Ubuntu includes by default but must be added to Debian if you want to use it.

Internet Acceleration Appliance: Here is an interesting project, a preseed Debian caching proxy server and network analyzer, the Internet Acceleration Appliance.

Tuxarena: "Here's a list of 10 commands which may come handy when using the command line in Linux:"

Google's Android market is bursting with great applications. We look at some of the best for your phone.

Gamelan: "Afterwards, the project manager gathered all the other developers in a separate room and told them flat out: "We do not have time to write unit tests, so just disregard everything he said.""

Bruce Byfield, avoiding a look back at his last years' predictions, looks ahead and makes nine specific predictions about what to expect in 2010.

I do tend to go on. But here's the short version of why I'm running Debian instead of Ubuntu.

eyeOS Blog: "We're happy to present to the eyeOS community the result of more than six months of work together with the great IBM US team, where eyeOS will be the Sample Workload of the new System Z serie Solution Edition for Cloud Computing"

JuntaDados: New release of juntaDados Multimedia GNU/Linux...juntaDados works to simplifies the creation of Linux-based multimedia workstations for social projects in Brazil like Pontos de Cultura.