Staying on top of Ubuntu news can be difficult. One place to watch is Planet Ubuntu. It collects blog entries of Ubuntu developers and contributors into one easily accessible newsfeed that you can subscribe to with any RSS reader. Among the news are tips and tricks, calls for testing, and general information about Ubuntu. Below is a small sample of posts that interested me within the past few days.

Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman posted a great article on his blog to explain why Ubuntu is based off of Debian’s unstable branch.

Dustin Kirkland, a Core Developer working on the Ubuntu Server, posts on his blog about increasing the security of the new encrypted home directory by using a 2-factor authentication, and commenting on the use of biometrics and fingerprint readers. It’s a follow-up to an earlier post describing how to mount an encrypted home directory when using a Jaunty LiveCD.

Efraín Valles, fellow Ubuntu enthusiast, wrote on his blog about the GNU/LINUX CDs application at Facebook to help spread the use of Linux to the “not-so-linux crowds” (IE: your Windows-only friends).

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