robinzrants.wordpress: On one of the computer forums I visit, someone has suggested that Ubuntu Linux “makes Linux look bad.”

linux.eregion.de: So now it’s been a few weeks since openSUSE 11.2 hit the street. Here are a few impressions / factoids that i discovered so far:

kdubois.net: Kernel coding is a bit of a pain, if you compare it to userspace coding. You loose a lot of nice things in userspace, like segfaults (think you can’t live with them? try living without them ), and a bad kernel build can easily stop a system cold. These stupid little annoyances can really stop beginners from getting involved!

penguininside.blogspot: Having trouble sorting out hundreds of e-Books? If the collection is too big, its really not friendlier to find a book by file name. We need something like Book Shelf to keep them in order, that is what e-Book Collection Managers are, but they are a lot flexible than our real life Book Shelves.

junauza.com: Motorola just launched its third Android-powered smartphone with a name that describes its unique characteristic. --The Backflip.

blog.mandriva.com: Mandriva team wishes you happy new year 2010 and is proud to propose the first alpha release for 2010 Spring. Together with these isos, you will find also technical specifications for this coming release.

freebsdnews.net: We are happy to announce that BSD Magazine is transforming into a free monthly online publication. The online version of BSD Magazine will stay in the same quality and form.

The significant thing about Chrome is that it sets a new way of thinking. It does not mean Chrome will dominate the world. Open standards mean that other companies could provide similar services.

• 6 Steps for Minimal Ubuntu Installation Using debootstrap
• Setting Full Duplex mode Ethernet Interface
• Automate Backups With Back In Time
• New Gloobus And CoverGloobus Sneaky Peeks
• VT4 using Drupal
• Why FOSS should not fear M&A by proprietary vendors
• On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
• Inkscape Class Day 1
• Single instance apps using D-Bus
• Life with Linux: Another week of work
• X Server 1.7.4 Released
• Possible solutions to Fix the Missing Network Manager Icon in Ubuntu 9.10
• Binutils Porting Guide To A New Target Architecture
• Mastering a DVD using QDVDAuthor
• ASUS Eee PC 1201N Netbook On Linux Update
• Mount Windows partition automatically using PySDM
• Fairy Linux Progress Report
• Make your Linux netbook battery last longer
• YouTube Videos with Linux: Part 2
• License Change at Novell Adds Confusion

daniweb.com: I just read a post on another site from someone who calls himself (herself?), linux guru, and it made me ponder the following question: What is a Linux Guru?

• 40% Firefox Growth in 2009
• Is Firefox’s position vulnerable in 2010?

The libvirt library is a Linux API over the virtualization capabilities of Linux that supports a variety of hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, as well as QEMU and some virtualization products for other operating systems. This article explores libvirt, its use, and its architecture.

benkevan.com/blog: Thanks to Tejas Guruswamy for a very good write up on build service repositories for KDE.

earthweb.com: Back in June, when I wrote an opinion piece about the enduring competition between the three major operating systems, I assumed the race would just go on indefinitely. But in a brilliant stroke of diplomatic ingenuity, Lenovo brought to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a single hybrid laptop in which Windows 7 and Lenovo's custom form of Linux.

learningubuntu.com: Even though in the world of Twitter there are a lot of fantastic, feature-full programs for the Twitter power user, that's not exactly what I, a simple Twitter user, is looking for.

h-online.com: Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell has announced in a blog posting that he has quit.

linux-magazine.com: The project chair has appointed Red Hat employee Colin Walters to the board. John Poelstra begins the year with open feedback to the board's work.

tuxradar.com: We picked out the best desktop search tools for Linux and put them through their paces - read on to find out how they fared!

mysticalgr.awardspace: some guys over at TechCrunch UK (or something like that) made a review of 8 linux distributions which ships KDE as their default graphical desktop. the first one? Slackware…

kdenews.org: KDE has made the first release candidate of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 available. The first KDE SC release (albeit not a stable one) is the first release candidate for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 which will be released on February 9th.