opensuse.org: The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the availability of beta 3 of the 11.1 release. It’s a few days late, but much better for the delay. Beta 3 is now available for immediate download and testing.

Its that time of year again! Merry Fearmongering everybody!

• Ubuntu is... umm.. kinda f-ed

• How to Break Up With the Linux Community
• 7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It
• Ten Commandments for New Linux Users

raiden.net: Switching users who are uncommitted, or can't switch cold turkey, are some of the hardest. One of the easiest ways I've found to help them make the switch is to do a multistep plan with them, similar to how smokers or others do in order to quit.

ericsbinaryworld.com/blog: For some reason, I didn’t get Linux Format Magazine issue #110 when I was supposed to. I ordered another copy and it arrived recently, so it’s time for another slate of Linux reviews.

linuxjournal.com: “What's in a name?” some bloke in the sixteenth century once asked. As Microsoft knows, quite a lot. What you call something can have a major influence on how you think about it. So how Microsoft talks about free software is important – not least for the clues that it gives about its latest tactical move to defang the open source threat.

heise-online.co.uk: At the Kernel Summit a few weeks ago, kernel hackers accepted the "linux-staging" development tree into the main development tree (1, 2) (Kernel-Summit). Greg Kroah-Hartman started linux-staging a few months ago as a place to bring together open source drivers that are maintained independently of the official Linux kernel but do not satisfy the kernel developers' quality requirements.

linux-foundation.org: The Linux Foundation today announced it is publishing a new report on the value of Linux development. The paper finds that it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today’s dollars with today’s software development costs. It would take $1.4 billion to develop the Linux kernel alone.

Andreas Jaeger: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 is a bit later than expected (it should go out later today). Of course, this raised couple of questions why. So let me explain how a build of a Beta release works in general from release manager perspective and what are the reasons for the slip.

education.zdnet: My oldest son, creator of flame wars, finally discovered that you can only surf to the nether regions of the Internet so many times before even Vista business succumbs to malware. His computer an unusable mass of pop-ups, spewing traffic over our network actually asked me tonight to reinstall Linux for him.

• PCLinuxOS Magazine October 2008 Released

• Mac OS is better than Ubuntu Linux: A myth
• Tracking down license infringements with the GPL Compliance Engineering Guide
• Let's Dance: Learning The Samba
• Fooling windows by dancing the samba with Linux
• ScreenCast: Fedora Talk with Twinkle
• Foresight 2.0.5 review - First Impressions
• A Week Of Open Source Riches
• Novell Open Enterprise beta targets Netware users
• Mozilla Developer News 10/21
• Symbian seeks to attract developers with open-source code
• Android is now Open Source
• Encrypt CD/DVDs
• Apricot netbook ditches Linux
• Gentoo-Wiki, Gentoo-portage Down
• Linux Carried Along on Netbooks Wave
• Is commercial open source possible?
• Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner
• Sending Email From Your System with sSMTP
• BBC Weather
• Indamixx sound box plays on Linux base
• Red Hat promises open-source virtualization technology
• Change (gk)sudo timeout
• Examining the compilation process. part 2.
• Interview With David Ascher And Dan Mosedale - Thunderbird - Mozilla Messaging

PR: Plat'Home today announced the results of the "Will Linux Work?" contest. For the past month, Plat'Home's OpenMicroServer (OMS) has been in the hands of the four contest winners who have put Linux to the test.

greenhughes.com: Often when we talk about Linux it is often in the context of a computer enthusiast, a person who enjoys finding out what open source technology can do for them. A group that sometimes we don't think about is our creative friends, artists, musicians, animators, audio engineers, video editors and suchlike.

blog.funtoo.org: A lot of people have asked me recently “What is the goal of Funtoo? What are you trying to do?” Here’s an explanation of what Funtoo is about.

heise-online.co.uk: After the release of Linux 2.6.27, kernel developers are currently busily integrating patches for the next kernel version into the main development branch of Linux. This usually involves discarding some old code and adding new code thouhg on balance, there are usually more new lines than old ones, making the kernel grow continually.

linuxtoday.com/blog: Ken Starks is one of my favorite people. He is the prime mover behind Komputers 4 Kids, Tux500, and Lindependence 2008. He makes his living selling and supporting Linux systems to businesses and home users. You won't find Ken wasting his days infesting online forums and chats with windy opinionating and beating up noobs-- Ken is a man of action with a direct approach to solving problems.

aseigo.blogspot: The following covers features and material that will be available in 4.2, which will not be released until January 2009.

• YaST Mascot Contest

• Obama Ubuntu
• Richard Stallman at U of M Tonight
• All the Linux Mint flavors now on nicely printed CDs

linux.com: Puppy Linux makes it easy to remaster its distribution, which probably explains the sheer number of Puppy Linux variants, called puplets, in the wild. Minisys Linux, or Muppy, is an interesting puplet in the form of a modular Linux distro based on a Puppy Linux and Slackware 12 mix.