• GamingOnLinux Contest
• 5 Cool Linux Games to Kill Time
• So… Minecraft...

phoronix.com: Earlier this week AMD launched the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards as their first next-generation offerings that belong to the "Northern Islands" family. A day later there was the Catalyst 10.10 Linux driver release.

Does anyone have an old working monitor lying around waiting to be taken to the dump or given away? Well, dump it on Tuxmachines.

• Happy Birthday PCLinuxOS!!!

• First Stable Release Of Libre Office In Late November
• Finally! SVG Coming to OpenOffice.org

linuxbsdos.com: The next stable release of Pardus will be Pardus 2011. According to the release announcement of Pardus 2011 beta, which was released a couple of days ago, YALI will ship with a redesigned interface and a bunch of advanced features.

In light of the malware scare yesterday, I thought it might be prudent to make sure everything else was up-to-date on security fixes as well. In addition, I've added a new theme for registered folks to try out.

blog.pizslacker.org: I completely stopped using Windows around 2002, and I've really enjoyed it, very, very much No More Windows For Me!

• Addictive retro-style arcade Linux game bundle only $5
• 3D space combat MMORPG ‘Vendetta Online’ coming to USC
• Coming Soon: Dungeons of Dredmor

• Numbers and the Death of Desktop Linux
• I See Dead Linux!

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 10.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

phoronix.com: As we mentioned earlier, Apple's Jeremy Huddleston took over release management of the X.Org Server 1.9 series now that it's stable and will only receive bug-fixes from this point on.

openbytes.wordpress: The world of Auteria is the setting for this MMORPG with its diverse range of landscapes, from Jungles to deserts, mountains to caves, villages to cities.

smspillaz.wordpress: I have just pushed* the tarballs for the 0.9.2 release of compiz. This release represents an evolution upon the development series, with plenty of bugs fixed (including a few major ones in the least release), and a few new features, including:

omgubuntu.co.uk: The latest version of IBM’s OpenOffice.org based office suite ‘Lotus Symphony’ has been released.

ghacks.net: The dictionary is a tool that any writer or student should have on their computer. And Linux users are not immune from this need.

• New Steel Storm Brings Improved Gamepad Support, Difficulty Modes
• Compiz Group Plugin Rewrite
• Drupal 7.0 Beta 2 released
• Padman’s PadShop
• Crossover Games 9.2
• Perl and Parrot Spread Open Source Love
• (Video) Distro Review: PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE And Gnome)
• KDE Commit-Digest for 17th October 2010
• Why Distributists Should Try Linux
• LinuxCrazy Podcast 84 rsnapshot
• “Installing Ubuntu – Netbook Edition 10.10” Dr. Bill Netcast #160

• Install SopCast Web TV player with VLC1.1.x problem fixed in Ubuntu
• The Shelf Applet Screencast (KDE Plasma 4.6)
• Globbing with zsh
• Install XBMC on Ubuntu with IR Remote Support
• GUI root login in Fedora 13
• Next shotwell version is coming with video upload support
• Delete a Table Without Deleting the Data in OOo or LO
• Installing Drupal7 on Ubuntu Lucid Server
• Tips for Using Bash in the Linux Terminal – Part 1

phoronix.com: Earlier this week I shared part of the vision that Matthew Tippett and I have for OpenBenchmarking.org (the next-generation version of Phoronix Global) and how it will change Linux benchmarking when launched with Phoronix Test Suite 3.0. One of the features of OpenBenchmarking.org / Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 "Iveland" is a major overhaul to the result graphs. Here's a preview.

blog.eracc.com: This question popped into my head today while I was reading my Linux based RSS feeds. Almost all Linux based articles that try to "sell" Linux do so by comparing Linux to some other operating system. With Linux I think we need to concentrate more on the question of, "Why is Linux good?"