tech-faq.com: Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation recently mused on the topic of non-free games on Linux, and unsurprisingly he rejects them, even though admitting that they “might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux”.

h-online.com: The new version sees a number of important changes affecting graphics drivers. The x32-ABI promises the advantages of x86-64-CPUs without the overhead of 64-bit code. Btrfs is reported to be quicker, and Yama prevents processes from accessing each other's allocated memory.

computerworlduk.com: French firm Ordissimo is bringing “the world’s simplest laptop” to the UK, a small family of Linux-based computers aimed at the population of holdouts who find conventional PCs and the online world that comes with it too complex to bother with.

zdnet.com: An essential Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X administration tool had a major security problem. It’s been fixed, and now you need to patch your system ASAP.

gnuman.com: SolusOS is a Debian “Stable” based distribution that uses GNOME 2 as its desktop environment. SolusOS is also an installable Live distribution.

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itwire.com: Mandriva SA, the French company that used to control development of the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution, has become something of a joke.

makeuseof.com: There are tiny distros like Puppy, chunky distros like Debian and some altogether more sinister efforts, which is what we’ve got here. I’ll be saving the very worst for last, so prepare yourselves…

h-online.com: The Fedora Project has pushed back the release of the Fedora 17 Linux distribution by a week, from 22 May to 29 May.

larrythefreesoftwareguy.wordpress: Distros and FOSS programs rise and fall depending on the quality of the software and the community that gathers around them. Good distros and programs — the “fittest” — survive, and the others, well, not so much.

infoworld.com: The trend for commercial open source licensing could be back toward the center, either to MPLv2 or an even better successor

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aseigo.blogspot: Just read another "forget desktop Linux" piece by a writer trying to cover Free software on a sight ostensibly doing the same. This is exactly the sort of thing I wrote about in a recent blog entry, and it's sad to see it continue.

makeuseof.com: For quite a while now, Linux users have constantly been discussing whether the open source operating system will ever experience a “year of the desktop.”

ostatic.com: In a blog post today Mandriva COO Jean-Manuel Croset announced that the new strategy going forward will be to let "the distribution evolve in and under the caring responsibility of the community."