Frustrated by sites such as YouTube that require you to return to their site each time you want view the same video clip? If so, UnPlug is the perfect little FireFox extension for you.

Source: UnPlug and play – download embedded media

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project is undergoing several changes before the release of its next version. In preparation for Fedora 7, which will fuse the Core and Extra software repositories, Fedora’s developers are auditing the repositories for non-free and non-open software that doesn’t meet the project’s guidelines. Eventually, the project may change its package guidelines to only allow Free Software.

Source: Fedora cleans its repositories, considers move to Free Software

As some of you who monitor the KDE news sphere may have noticed, there has been a recent addition to the kdebase module. The Dolphin File Manager has been added to complement Konqueror’s browsing capabilities. Read on for more information about this new File Manager and its relationship to Konqueror and the rest of KDE.

Source: The Road to KDE 4: Dolphin and Konqueror

One of the most common security challenges Linux and Unix IT administrators face is how to effectively manage the root or super-user account. In an age of regulatory compliance and data privacy laws — and as more and more organizations elect to run mission-critical financial, customer relationship management, supply chain management and other applications in heterogeneous Unix and Linux environments — controlling and auditing privileged account access is more crucial than ever.

Source: Safeguarding the Keys to the Linux Kingdom

In the opening piece of the “Attack of the Pod Penguins” series, I mentioned my friend Justin, the carpenter. In his line of work as a builder, he carries a tool belt containing everything he’ll need to complete a job – hammer, nails, speed square, tape measure, pencil and a load of other assorted hand tools. The podcasting tool belt isn’t so different from that worn and shiny fold of leather slapping against Justin’s hip. The point is to provide every tool you’ll need to complete the podcasting job.

Source: Attack of the Pod Penguins 7: Encoding with lame

by Mark Rais, Senior Editor ReallyLinux.com

It was hard to believe, but early Saturday morning my kids snuck downstairs, grabbed my laptop out of the bag and started using it for fun and games. What was more surprising was the fact that they chose my laptop running Fedora, rather than the family PC running Windows with all of the kids games and edutainment packages

When I asked my son why he had snatched my laptop instead of using the family PC, he replied without hesitation: “Because Linux is better.”

Source: Really Linux

Author: Stephan Jau

Introduction

I have switched to Xubuntu a few months ago coming from Kubuntu. In Kubuntu I liked the (already available) option of setting up a list of image files and have them randomly displayed as background image on the desktop. This was one of the things I have missed so far in Xfce.

Source: How to Forge

The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.

Source: ZDNet