Ok, so maybe the title is a bit misleading, but here is the deal. The Linux Foundation, you know the guys who safe guard Linux and employ Linus, are going to offer free, as in beer, educational webinars on the topics of Linux starting in March.

This is a great opportunity for you to learn more about Linux from the folks who are developing and changing Linux everyday! You can sign up for the courses at:

http://training.linuxfoundation.org/lp/sign-up-for-the-free-linux-training-webinar-series

Here are some details from the page above:

Starting in March, The Linux Foundation will be offering free Linux Training webinars taught by well-known Linux developers directly building on their own experience.  This is an excellent opportunity to learn directly from key developers and to experience a sample of the type of courses offered through our Linux Training program.

Some of the upcoming courses are:

• “An Introduction to Git,” by kernel maintainer and TAB chair James Bottomley
• “Linux System Troubleshooting and Tuning” by Linux author and community manager Joe Brockmeier
• “Linux Administration 101″ also by Joe Brockmeier
• “How to Work wth the Linux community,” by LWN.net editor and kernel developer Jon Corbet
• “A Linux Filesystem Overview,” by kernel dev Christoph Hellwig
• “Btrfs: An Intro and Update” to the new file system for Linux, by project lead Chris Mason
• “Linux Performance Tuning,” by North America’s first kernel developer Ted Ts’o

I personally am looking forward to these and hopefully many more webinars in the future, and would like to give an advanced thank you to the Linux Foundation for all the great work they are sponsoring every day.

Fellow nerds, listen up, if you want to know about the nerd, open source, or just plain awesome things happening in Utah, then you want to be a subscriber to the UTOS Announcement Mailing List

From the Official UTOS Blog:

The idea behind this mailing list is to simplify the announcements that UTOS provides to the community.  While we do a fair bit on our blog, we’d like to keep the mailngs going, but it has become complex to send mail to each Local User Group (LUG) every time we need to advertise an event or announce something.  In addition, sending mail to more and more LUGs will make it difficult as we grow the free and open source community in Utah and the Mountain West.

Go ahead and hit up http://mail.utos.org/mailman/listinfo/announce to sign up for the list, and then you can meet me at one of the announced meetings, activities, or just plain awesome somethings!

Am I the only person who thinks that Tom Cruise and Kurt Russell look alike?

This looks good. Jude Law plays a futuristic human organs repo man… neat! BTW – This is a red ban trailer, boobs, language, and violence.

I am rather shocked that there isn’t a single app in the Android market for posting to a blog via XML-RPC, I mean really, that seems like a given for the type of people who own Android based phones. Maybe it is time I spread my JVM/Dalvik wings.