• Novell Rejects Hedge Fund’s Offer To Take The Company Private For $2 Billion
• Novell Says $5.75-Share Offer From Elliott Is ‘Inadequate’
• openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 115 is out
• SCO vs. Linux: The jury has been informed

• Ubuntu Music Store (coming soon!)
• Free Software is a democracy, NOT!
• Ubuntu Dropbox
• Xubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Beta 1 Screenshots Tour

• Flipping out with Linux
• Session Management Docklet Coming to Docky
• Simple OpenOffice.org-based Document Management Solution
• Comcast Uses Open Source for IPv6 Deployment
• The open stories from OSBC
• Firefox zero-day fix set up for 30 March release
• All This Great Technology Just to Reinvent Television
• Options Activity for Red Hat Inc
• Open Season
• Studying kernel bugs
• Novell to release Pulse social network for testing
• Ryan Szrama On Drupal-Based E-Commerce
• Going Linux: Mar 17: #096 - Computer America #24
• FLOSS Weekly 113: Simon Phipps
• Rwanda: SOS Pupils Get 150 Laptops
• Achron Alpha Build Now For GNU/Linux 64-Bit
• NVIDIA Releases OpenGL 3.3 Linux Driver
• Monitor Energy Saver
• Rethinking Failsafes for Critical Linux Systems
• Hacker Evolution: Untold Now Available For GNU/Linux
• Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Lands New CEO Job

• Tweak your Ubuntu with Ubuntu Tweak
• A way out of all those Wubi problems
• Removing the user list from Gnome 2.28 login screen
• Useful command line little tricks (part 4)
• Solving pilot-xfer sync problem on Ubuntu/Mint
• Install Latest Cairo-Dock/update every week in Ubuntu

itworld.com: Design and themes have been a key part of the Linux buy-in for as long as I can remember. In fact, once upon a time, the look and feel of application was actually used as its primary selling point to me.

linux.com: “Standards are as interesting as a Russian Truck,” said Ken Olsen, president and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, at that time the second largest computer system company in the world.

desktoplinux.com: Shuttle announced a compact, all-in-one PC featuring a 15.6-inch touchscreen and a dual-core Intel Atom D510 available with SUSE Linux. The X50V2 includes a 1366 x 768 display, webcam, 4-in-1 card reader, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay, and up to 4GB of RAM.

pdg86.wordpress: Wow! Can you believe it? Just 2 months back what had started out as a forum thread in Arch Linux Forum, now we have a Website.

• Open Source Gets Political
• 2010 Open Source Business Conference – Day Two
• Open Source Business Models Going to the Core
• Open source makes another move on Wall Street
• Open-source innovation: A matter of price?
• Why Open Source and Operations Matter in Cloud Computing
• Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source

• Nerd alert: first Lucid-Lynx Ubuntu beta fun
• Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 Screenshot tour
• The New Ubuntu Linux's five best features
• All Done With Ubuntu
• Lubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 Released; Screenshots

ostatic.com/blog: Wikipedia has become famous, or perhaps infamous, for its intolerance of new content. The deletionists are getting renewed attention after proposing that the dwm entry be deleted because it's a a "non-notable window manager."

phoronix.com: Before devoting this hardware to the farm, we ran a few benchmarks comparing the performance of NVIDIA's ION GeForce 9400M graphics processor to the ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor.

h-online.com: Florian Schießl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.

thinkdigit.com: The Browser Wars are heating up again. This article then is purely about which one of our favourite browsers is the Fastest. We haven't covered all the browsers under the sun but certainly all the usual suspects.

sourceforge.net: A physical disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions on which the operating system can read and write data. GParted enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of the partitions.

tuxradar.com: There's a new version of Linux's grandest office suite, but is it a major step forward or just another humdrum release with little to show? And most importantly, does it finally get the startup time down to an acceptable level? Read on for all the gory details...

linuxjournal.com: RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts.

unixbhaskar.blogspot: Linux has grown from a system that used to boot from a floppy providing no luxurious features to the user, to the current jazzy Linux systems. It is important to have an insight of the Linux boot procedure.

• Bye Ubuntu, it could have been fun .. but it wasn't
• Why Shuttleworth is right - Ubuntu not a democracy and shouldn't be
• Democratic, Meritocratic, or Dictatorship?
• Is the Scrollbar Going Away?
• Ubuntu: three little buttons cause a great deal of angst
• Testing The Power Management Of Ubuntu 10.04
• Lucid Lynx Review: New features since Ubuntu 9.10
• Is the UbuntuOne Music Store ready yet?
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 Out for Testing

By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it; the results are fairly spectacular…

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