• What Ubuntu must do

• Personalising the desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu
• Loading ...Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III
• A New Year Brings A New NVClock Beta
• Howto Create your own aliases in Debian
• My Experiences Installing Ubuntu
• Perl For Loop
• Crontabs 101
• KDE 4.2 shaping up well
• Linux & Teachers
• CentOS: KDE Upgrade the Hard Way
• Commercial open source business strategies in 2009 and beyond
• Will the Gnome Project change version control system?
• Pupils conquer fear of computers
• OpenSuSE 11.1 First Impressions
• Palm "Nova" Linux set for CES debut?
• How to Get the "Do You Want to Print a Form Letter?" in OOo
• openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
• How to Create a Fedora 10 Linux Distribution
• Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL
• Don't shout at your disk drives, warns Sun engineer
• KDE 4.2 Branched
• Check the spell of your documents from command line
• No X Server 1.6 Release In Sight
• Call for enabling HP Pavilion internal softmodem
• The FOSS Project Blues
• OOo: Delete the recent document history
• The rebirth of the uncool

internetnews.com: Cisco and FSF lawsuit over GPL The lawsuit between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco may be critical in shaping the future of the open source ecosystem, according to legal experts closely watching the saga's next stages.

neuraldump.com: I've been distro-hopping a bit over the break and have arrived at my new favorite flavor of linux: Mandriva.

kval.com: Want to organize and title your music collection? Find a free alternative to popular office software programs? Or enjoy a supportive environment for women in computing at “LinuxChix”?

• Cool Bash Tips

• Linux Command Line For Beginners

• Top 10 Linux Distributions in 2008

• My Top Five Linux Predictions for 2009

• Linux desktop gains kid-friendly browse

• Let Your Geeky Kids Play Online With KidZui

cookingwithlinux.com: Well, I have to say that I did go and look at gOS Gadgets...and downloaded it...and installed it on my daughter's computer: P4 1.2Ghz or thereabouts, with 768Mb RAM and a 64Mb ATI video card.

blogs.the451group: I recently had a very interesting talk with Freescale’s Glen Burchers, director of global consumer marketing, regarding netbooks, where Linux stands with this emerging form factor and what we can expect to see as everybody and their grandma pushes innovation of these devices.

linuxdevices.com: Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) has been ported to the Sharp Zaurus PDA in an open source distribution called "Zubuntu." Developed by hacker Omegamoon, Zubuntu 1.0 uses the LXDE interface, and can now be booted (mostly) from flash memory.

theregister.co.uk: With the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There are a lot of clouds out there right now, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, thinks the rain is going to be good, particularly for Linux.

heise-online.co.uk: Following the release of Linux 2.6.28 on Christmas Eve, the start of the hectic merge window phase of development for the next version was delayed for a few days of peace on earth, before business as usual, with Linus Torvalds begining to collect changes for 2.6.29 on the 28th of December.

linux-gamers.net: TORCS version 1.3.1 is available for download. The most important changes are reworked cars and tracks, new and better looking opponents, and a lot of little improvements and a few new features.

raiden.net: One of the great technologies I've been looking forward to for years is the wearable PC. The idea of a wearable PC has been in the mindset of the general public since at least the early 80's, or possibly sooner.

blogs.techrepublic.com: It was only inevitable that Google Android would find its way onto the PC. But what exactly does this mean for Linux? Does it really hold any value or will it be nothing more than a flash in the pan?

blogs.zdnet.com: I don’t think so, but then I read headlines like this, from the Manila Bulletin in the Philippines, and I wonder if such a boycott does not already exist.

marilyn.frields.org: As was just announced on the announcement mailing list*, the voting ballots for the Fedora 11 release name are now open.

jdeeth.blogspot: This is supposed to be a political blog, but it's Linux Monday and that means it's time for a look at the politics of software. Nothing's a hotter issue these days, literally, than global warming, and today we'll see how Linux can save the planet.

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:

• Feature: Linux and distributions through the years

• Statistics: DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking in 2007 and 2008
• News: Debian clears Lenny firmware issue, Ubuntu proposes new notification agent, openSUSE discusses roadmap for 11.2, Xubuntu and Bayanihan Linux updates
• Released last week: FreeBSD 7.1, Sabayon Linux 4, sidux 2008-04
• Upcoming releases: Pardus Linux 2008.2
• Donations: LXDE receives US$250
• New distribution: Chakra LiveCD
• Reader comments

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

howsoftwareisbuilt.com: In this interview we talk with Stormy about History and scope of the GNOME umbrella project, The relationship between GNOME and the public, and Branding an open source project in a world of mixed solutions.