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Quickie Conference Report: Day One - SCALE 9x

By Bill Childers 

Yesterday marked the opening of the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. SCALE's venue this year is the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, just a stone's throw from LAX Airport. SCALE opened strong with lots of technical content, much of it about the "DevOps" movement and how you can bring its benefits to your place of business. more>>

Squid-deb-proxy won't eat your submarine.

Presenting squid-deb-proxy! Speed up your update downloads!

By Bill Childers 

Are you like me and have multiple Ubuntu machines under one roof? Are you tired of downloading the same update multiple times? Sick of what seems to be duplicate work? Let me introduce you to my little friend... squid-deb-proxy. more>>

Billix - it fits on your finger!

Announcing Billix 0.27 and... SuperBillix 0.27!

By Bill Childers 

Billix debuted in the August 2008 issue of Linux Journal, and it's gone thru incremental updates since then. I've tried to keep it on the same track as Ubuntu updates, more-or-less, though I've had varying levels of success with that. However, Billix 0.27 released only a few days after Ubuntu 10.04LTS did. As usual, Billix fits easily on a 256MB USB key or higher, and is available from the usual spot (http://sourceforge.net/projects/billix). more>>

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