http://news.softpedia.com – Tiny Core 2.11 is here, a little over a month after the previous version. The light-weight Live CD/USB Linux distribution got a decent number of updates and most of the work was focused on bringing Tiny Core in line with the freedesktop.org standard. The developers are also saying that Tiny Core 3.0 is just around the corner. (General)

http://www.itwire.com – Australia will continue to be at the front line of online child protection, with the release of new software SafeChat from Aussie company Netblox Blue. (IT news)

http://www.go2linux.org – BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it may account for as much as 43 % of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009. (HowTos)

http://linuxo.com – Bloomberg: "If you're put off by Steve Jobs's control-freakdom and Microsoft's long history of buggy bloatware, you might want to spend some time with Dell's line of laptops running Ubuntu, the free, consumer-oriented version of the open-source Linux operating system." (General)

http://apcmag.com – The dulcet tones of McAfee's spinmeister drift down the phone line into my ear, lulling me into believing they'll never root my computer, ever again. Wait, WHAT?! (IT news)