consortiuminfo.org: Last summer, a new organization was announced with the goal of promoting the uptake of open source software by the U.S. federal government. Now that organization has completed its first quite successful year of operations.

• Is the Linux Kernel In Trouble?
• Kernel Log: 2.6.36 development and new stable kernels and drivers

jimlynch.com: Now – many years after the War of the Gargantuas movie – there are two more gargantuas that are at war. These two aren’t brown and green, these two are peppermint. I’m referring, of course, to Peppermint OS One and Peppermint Ice.

• KDE desktop integrates Webkit
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linuxjournal.com: The distribution is always of the highest quality with a professional feel and polish. Novell employs full-time developers to work on openSUSE and community projects, because many of the innovations first seen in openSUSE will end up in Novell's commercial SUSE Enterprise edition.

thinkdigit.com: The PCLinuxOS distro comes in a number of flavours. It offers Gnome, KDE, and OpenBox desktop enviromnents amongst others. It also comes in a variant known as 'Enlightenment Desktop' which includes a window manager of the same name.

muktware.com: Linux has become omnipresent. It's presence is so deep that a user may not even know that he/she is in-fact using Linux. However, in recent times some GNU/Linux based products have become overly popular outshining Linux.

peterswapan.wordpress: Ubuntu is a collection of thousands of computer programs and documents created by a range of individuals, teams and companies. Each of these programs may come under a different licence.

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• Basenji - A portable volume indexer
• Use Maximus to Go Full-Screen in Ubuntu
• Mozilla Draws Controversy Over Silent Firefox Updates
• Bradley M. Kuhn: May LF Make Me Superfluous
• New OOo 3.3 Beta release
• LinuxCon: Linux's Future in the Spotlight
• Linux Chief Sounds Off on Android, Apple and App Stores
• Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective
• The continuum of Linux news #LinuxCon
• Beginners Tour of Shotwell
• An overview of today’s top-ten Linux distributions
• Dell backs Ubuntu
• Beware of “functions are first class citizens” mantra

• Find fastest mirrors for yum CentOS/Fedora/RHEL
• Die Flash Cookie, Die!
• Add a Word Count Feature to Tomboy
• Am I running 32-bit or 64-bit Linux?
• Even more GNOME keyboard shortcuts
• Equinox GTK Theme + Faenza Icon Theme = Awesomeness!
• Easily Create a Custom Lightweight Desktop Environment
• Regular expressions for everyone: The basics
• How to enable Autologin to Linux console using mingetty
• RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 Explained with Diagrams
• Smart Cards and Secret Agents
• Disable the Ugly Gnome Metacity Minimize Effect
• How to use teapot like a pro
• New Illumination Tutorial
• arranging windows from the gnu/linux command line with wmctrl
• Lazy sound notification

apcmag.com: With netbooks, you can either run "lite" software, or push the grunt work into the cloud. Jolicloud OS, based on Ubuntu, aims to do the latter.

blogs.gnome.org: Due to everything that has happened at Mandriva, I guess it is time to switch distributions. I have no idea when I made the switch to Mandriva, but I know for certain I’ve used it for the last 5 years. At the moment I’m considering Fedora and openSUSE.

webmonkey.com: The folks at DeviantArt, a website best known for hosting images of fairies and vampires created by gothy art students, have debuted a new browser-based drawing tool created entirely with web standards.

computerworld.com.au: Free software is a different beast from gratis software. Free software activist, Richard Stallman, discusses the importance of freedom across all modes of computing.

We are pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 135.

jeffhoogland.blogspot: I play Starcraft 2 on Linux and apparently I'm not the only one.

technologytales.com: It’s amazing what work can bring your way in terms of technology. For me, (GNU) Emacs Has proved to be such a thing recently. It may have been around since 1975, long before my adventures in computing ever started in fact, but I am asking myself why I never really have used it much.

• Missing From Linux 2.6.36: VIA's TTM/GEM DRM
• Ubuntu Kernel Developer releases Firmware Test Suite
• Deviant Google Android probes Linux kernel re-entry
• Stable kernel updates

mostlymaths.net: I have been using Linux since around 1998, when I installed Debian from scratch in my old Pentium II. I am more end-user than power user, but the computer I use most often (my netbook) has Linux in it by default. Linux is a time waster. It can come in two time-wasting fashion:

• Ubootnu versus the neck beards
• Of GNU/Linux, Hardliners and a clear case of double standards!