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Jono Bacon, a stalwart figure in the Linux Community is a long time user of Linux and is probably most famous for his contributions to the since gone, but not forgotten LUGRadio is writing a book. But first, some more about Jono…

He can often be found attending and presenting at events around the world such as Linux Expo, FossCamp and GUADEC.

He likes to play Hungry Hippos and can often be found lurking around Church graveyards with a copy of The Design of Everyday Things and a spade.

Jono is currently the Ubuntu Community Manager (according to wikipedia), which gives him an unparalleled sense of community. If you haven’t heard of Ubuntu before then he isn’t doing his job right. Its likely that you have heard of Ubuntu, so, he must be doing something good.

The art of community is going to be published by O’Reilly sometime in 2009, the book is going to focus on the community aspects of large groups and the uniqueness of Linux, GNU and the OpenSource movement.

This isn’t Jonos first attempt at writing, he also co-wrote Linux Desktop Hacks which was also released by O’Reilly.

I wish Jono all the best on the book and I’ll certainly be purchasing it, despite it also being released as a Creative Commons publication which will be free for download.

Good luck Jono, all the best with the book.

I’ve been mulling over the idea of re-opening a forum, possibly not using phpBB which is what I’ve used before, unless they have gotten a grip of their spamming issues.

What do you think? I seem to get quite a few support requests as opposed to plain comments, so I could better assist and so could others in a forum.

I was recently on this weblog: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/homebuilt_computers_christmas

When I noticed that there was an option at the top to listen to the blog, I thought it would be poor, but it turns out to be a pretty good service. So I signed up for it, it was very quick and simple and its easy to use.

Check it out, just press the Listen Now button.

Its been a while since I looked at the cost of bluray drives and I’d always assumed they were still over the £100 mark, well it turns out you can get quite a few under the £100 mark and they all seem pretty good too.

Check out this one from Dabs for only £65!

Dabs LG Blu-ray/HD DVD drive

That drive seems to handle pretty much everything, CD, DVD, HD DVD, blu ray too.

I’ve just been looking into movie playback in Fedora 10 for Bluray, once I know if its easy enough I might be getting one of those drives, much cheaper then a PS3.