The wiki at Steve Baker’s site contains a fairly comprehensive history of the Linux mascot.
Linus, “Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”
FLOSS Weekly is a great podcast about Open Source Software. Each episode consists of an interview with a key member of the development team for a popular Open Source project. There have been 26 episodes so far, covering projects such as SQLite, POV-Ray, PostgreSQL, Samba and Python.
Ever tried to unmount a device in Linux, but can’t because it is apparently still being used by something? If so, then the ‘fuser’ command is what you want. Just type ‘fuser -m’ followed by the path that the device is currently mounted to (e.g. ‘fuser -m /home’), and then you’ll receive a list of all the processes that are currently using it.
The fuser command can also be used to kill the processes as well, just by adding the ‘-k’ option (e.g. ‘fuser -km /home’).