gnome.org: The GNOME Foundation 2009 Annual Report has been released and is available for download.

linux-mag.com: Two kernel releases have gone by since we last checked in with the check-ins. While the storage related changes are seemingly minimal, it’s always good to review what changed; you might be surprised.

phoronix.com: Unigine Corp has announced the three winners of its Linux game development competition. The three winning teams that will now be granted Unigine Engine licenses to develop their titles include Kot-In-Action, Gamepulp, and MED-Art.

itworld.com: Getting into the middle of a discussion on the virtues of open source versus free software is about as smart as trying to reconcile the two major US political parties at this point in history--in other words, a fool's errand.

mynitor.com: Nothing beats the traditional methods of note taking, a simple pen and paper. In this article, we’re listing top 15 populate note taking applications for Linux that are simply to the point.

opensourcetips.org: Top 5 GNOME themes are listed here. Once you have downloaded the file rightclick at desktop and click on Change Desktop Background Option.

kmandla.wordpress: Two-thousand-and-ten is almost over. I’ve done more than my share of distro-hopping this year, and not because of a fickle character, but because of a curious streak. So I have a few end-of-year “notes.”

linuxuser.co.uk: Gareth Halfacree takes the KDE spin of popular desktop Linux distribution Ubuntu, known as Kubuntu, through its paces…

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:

• Reviews: Slax - still alive in the Slax Community remix
• News: Debian updates installer and artwork, Fedora prepares for Btrfs transition, CentOS considers release options, openSUSE includes Galbraith Latency patch, NetBSD interview
• Questions and answers: Memory usage
• Released last week: Asturix 3, Jolicloud 1.1, Vinux 3.1
• New additions: Madbox Linux
• New distributions: Groovy Arcade Linux, Swift Linux
• Reader comments

Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

computerworlduk.com: Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-profile examples to point to when people doubt its suitability for this role. Obvious ones like Google and Amazon have been joined more recently by the likes of Facebook and Twitter. And now here's another well-known name opening up, Netflix:

earthweb.com: In this article, I’ll explore which applications have allowed non-profits, libraries and schools to make the move over to Linux and web-based services and away from a licensing nightmare brought to us by our friends in the proprietary software universe.

computerweekly.com: The European Commission (EC) IT chief has taken the open source lobby to task over a €189m (£158m) deal the EC signed last week, its largest ever software deal.

• Good News Out Of Unigine's Linux Game Competition
• Drupal 7.0 RC 2 Released
• Application Menu making it’s way to Ubuntu's Firefox
• Frogatto & Friends
• The emacs 30 Day Challenge: Using 'gnus' to read mail
• Future of U.S. economy debated (featuring Jim Whitehurst)
• Adding default support for Airport remote sinks in PulseAudio
• AMD's Hiring Another Open-Source Driver Developer
• YafaRay [Blender 3D's Open Source Raytracing Engine] is a treat
• Krita 2.3, New Feature #5: Canvas Rotation
• Debian and Red Hat close Exim hole
• 'Parenthetical Purge' Movement Seeks Emoticon-Free December
• Update This!
• Why I Hate Samba
• The RSA Algorithm, Humanized ( sorta )
• why do they think this is OK? continued

• How to execute commands when you log out .logout file
• setsid how to keep commands running after you exit shell prompt
• WINE tips: Giving each Windows application its own environment
• Gentoo Love: Intro to Portage Sets
• How to connect/transfer files over ssh using Nautilus(file manager)
• Screenshot Grabbing
• Encrypt Filesystems
• Windows 7 auto-change background wallpaper functionality in Ubuntu
• Eva's Great Guide to Ubuntu – Part 2
• How to stop / disable ping response in Linux
• Get Your Favourite Gnome Panel Applets in Ubuntu 11.04
• Which runlevel am I in | Linux

martin-graesslin.com: Another week is gone and my KWin-GLES branch got further polishing. All developing on the OpenGL ES code is nowadays happening on my notebook using KWin-GLES. So it is already so useable that I can develop on it.

cristalinux.blogspot: Most computer users should be familiar with Run Application menu entries. Windows includes a menu entry to execute commands from and so do most Linux desktop managers. GnomeDo development halted around a year ago.

• Software Reviews Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 Before the New Year
• Drag and drop close to landing in Unity
• Goodbye Ubuntu Netbook Edition Maverick, hello Jolicloud

linuxgamingnews.org: Frozenbyte the developers of Shadowgrounds and Trine series are looking for GNU/Linux gamers to test their Trine port.

computerweekly.com: Open source software is (of course) distributed (for the most part) under the GNU Lesser General Public License, which grants the right to modify and redistribute the software code itself. But as software application development experiences increasingly more rapid iterations (especially in Agile development environments) - could open source code licensing and compliance get overlooked?

nienhueser.de: New KDE versions are released every six months nowadays. Roughly three months are spent on developing new features, the other three are devoted to release preparations. "Why does it take that long?"