| Linux Today News 21 MORE NOTABLE FREE LINUX GAMES (PART 3 OF 3)
"This article is the third and final part in this series. If you missed the first two parts, they are available to read here: Part 1, Part 2. We have again tried to cover a wide range of game genres. Hopefully there will be something in this article which will be of interest to any type of gamer." 10 SERVER PREDICTIONS FOR '11
"These 10 predictions for 2011 will have you watching the latest developments from the big hardware manufacturers. Sure, some are wishful thinking, but others are clearly within reach for a 2011 delivery time frame." CODING STYLES COMPARISON IN THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WORLD
"While looking for existing C coding standards I discovered that the GNU and Linux projects officially suggest very different styles. Inside the Linux kernel documentation, Linus Torvalds goes so far as to mock GNU coding standards:" BEHIND THE KOFFICE SPLIT
"On December 6th the KDE Project announced the Calligra Project, which was called a "continuation of the KOffice project." Others, though, might call it a fork or a split between the bulk of the KOffice developers and KWord developer Thomas Zander." ALLEN V. WORLD AND DOG - FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
"Paul Allen's Interval Licensing has met the deadline to file an amended complaint [PDF] with specificity. If you can read it without passing out laughing and/or having your head explode with disgust, I'd like to know what happened to you as a child that blunted your normal emotions" THE BIG PRESENTATION: THE FAMILIAR, THE FRUSTRATING AND THE FLASHY
"The world of Linux includes several options for users who need to create slide presentations in the style of Microsoft PowerPoint. OpenOffice.org's Impress does a great job of mimicking most of PowerPoint's functions, giving Redmond refugees a familiar tool." BOOK REVIEW: LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPMENT, THIRD EDITION
"It has been well over five years since LWN reviewed the second edition of Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development. Needless to say, things have changed a little since the 2.6.10 release covered by that edition." MICROSOFT: NOVELL IS TOAST AND THE PATENT JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON
"The end of 2010 has been interesting. Mass defections from Oracle?s OpenOffice team and the software is ported as LibreOffice. Then Mark Shuttleworth announces that Wayland is in, Xorg is out and Unity will be the next Ubuntu desktop." A LOOK AT LINUXCONSOLE 1.0.2010
"The LinuxConsole distribution was my dark horse of 2009. It was a small, French Linux distro which managed to be compact, fast and included an interesting approach to software management." EXT4 FILESYSTEM HITS ANDROID, NO NEED TO FEAR DATA LOSS
"Google's new Nexus S smartphone is the first Android device to use the Ext4 filesystem" PAUL ALLEN REFILES MASSIVE PATENT SUIT AGAINST TECH HEAVIES
"A company owned by Paul Allen, the billionaire investor and Microsoft cofounder, has reintroduced a patent-infringement lawsuit against some of the nation's biggest Internet companies, including Google and Apple." Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
SEASON OF KDE 2010
"This year was the 4th Season of KDE. Season of KDE (SoK) allows KDE to help support students and worthwhile projects who didn't manage to get one of the limited places in the Google Summer of Code program." HOW YOU KNOW WHEN IT?S TIME TO SWITCH TO LINUX
"It's easy to be content with your computer installation as long as it keeps doing what you want it to without too much trouble. When frequent problems arise, however, it's hard to remain faithful for long." MORE COMMAND-LINE FUN
"This week I'd like to cover some command line tips and tricks. There are a lot of tasks which can be completed with one or two lines and I'd like to share a handful that I've found useful." FOR COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE FIRMS IN 2011, OPEN SOURCE IS RIPE FOR PICKING
"While our recent roundup of 2010's biggest open source events emphasized the fact that two large, public U.S. companies focused primarily on open source--Sun Microsystems and Novell--lost their independence, 2011 promises to be the year that open source takes on massive appeal..." LINUX FOR THE REST OF US?
"Back in the late 1990s, people were touting Linux as the ?next big thing.? Think back to 1998 when an internal memo released by Microsoft about the ?Linux threat? was leaked to the public." PCLINUXOS 64-BIT SUFFERS DELAYS, BUT STILL COMING
"A long anticipated 64-bit version of PCLOS was reported to be in development this past November. And as 2010 draws to a close, some wonder what its current status is." PUTIN ORDERS RUSSIAN GOV'T TO MOVE TO OPEN SOURCE
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [cq] has ordered government agencies there to open-source software by 2015, according to translated documents." GENEALOGY PROGRAM: GRAMPS 3.2.5 RELEASED
"The Gramps Developers are happy to announce a new bug fix release: Version 3.2.5 ? the ?I intend to live forever? bug fix release." 6 LINUX BURNING APPLICATIONS - OVERVIEW & SCREENSHOTS
"K3b is a powerful, feature-complete burning application for KDE 4 which comes with support for burning CDs, DVDs, ISO images, Blu-ray discs, audio CDs, creating ISO images." TENQ P07: A 10-INCH TABLET THAT RUNS UBUNTU
"If you are in the market for a tablet device at the moment, the two choices you have are an Apple iOS iPad or one of the growing number of Android tablets. But next year the choice of OS could double." KICK OFF FOR GNOME:AYATANA PROJECT...
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." ANDROID MARKET SAID TO SURPASS 200K
"Android Market is now offering 200,000 applications, only a few months after surpassing 100,000, according to estimates published by AndroLib." WE'RE HIRING: FULL-TIME DEVELOPER OPENING IN CORVALLIS, OREGON
"Want to write code and support the missions of some of the world?s most important open source projects?" PIDGIN 2.7.9 UPDATES FOR SECURITY AND SMILEYS ?!
"The open source pidgin instant messenger client, is out with a new update fixing at least one security issue as well as an interesting emoticon/smiley issue." BROWSERS 2010: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
"The past year was one of the busiest in recent memory for browser developers, with multiple releases and innovations from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera." OSI ASKS GERMAN FEDERAL CARTEL OFFICE TO INVESTIGATE CPTN TRANSACTION
"Earlier this month it was revealed that a consortium of companies led by Microsoft have offered over $400M to strip out all of Novell's patent assets from the Attachmate transaction and place them into a new entity called CPTN." FINALLY A DOWNLOAD ACCELERATOR FOR LINUX THAT WORKS WITH CHROME/CHROMIUM
"There are not many download accelerators for Linux that integrate well with web browsers and have support for downloading links right from the browser." HEDGEWARS - AWESOME OPEN-SOURCE WORMS-LIKE GAME FOR LINUX
"A few days ago I reviewd WarMUX, a free and open-source Worms-like game for Linux. Today I?ll take a look to Hedgewars, another free Worms clone with funny characters, good playability and support for online multiplayer." TRANSFORM GEDIT INTO A WEB DEVELOPER IDE
"To many, it may seems like a normal text-editor with no special functions (just like notepad in Windows), but for those regular users, they will swear by it and marvel at how powerful and versatile it can be. With its plugins system, it can easily transform itself from a basic text-editor to complicated and powerful programming IDE." SKYPE EXPRESSES $1 WORTH OF SORROW
"Skype is sorry that their house of cards collapsed. Sorry, to the tune of $1." NET NEUTRALITY 2011: WHAT STORMS MAY COME
"When the Federal Communications Commission passed its first binding network neutrality rules earlier this month, it brought a sort of closure to a long-running, raucous debate that had left nearly all participants exasperated, if not exhausted." ORACLE WINS THE 2010 OPEN SOURCE ENEMIES PRIZE
"The year 2010 has seen a number of enemies of open source software making waves. After thinking about it long and hard ? about five minutes or so ? I have determined the proper winner of the 2010 Open Source Enemies Prize, though some other contenders deserve a Dishonorable Mention" KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.37 (PART 5) - DRIVERS
"Support for fast USB 3.0 storage devices with USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP), an audio loopback driver plus extensions to support Apple's Magic Trackpad are only some of the advances" TOP 50 PROGRAMMING QUOTES OF ALL TIME
"I hope you have enjoyed our collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related quotes." LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
"Now that I have finally disengaged myself from the what is commercially and socially ? and for some, spiritually (and God bless you, every one) ? known as ?the holiday season,? I have been giving a lot of thought to how good a year 2010 was, the Sun purchase by Oracle and the Novell deal notwithstanding, and what 2011 has to offer." | 
