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If you are a gamer, we want YOU to give us your feedback with this short 10 minute survey. Open Source software has had a tremendous influence in nearly every area of computing - including the gaming space. The goal of this survey is to get a deeper understanding of the current general perception of Free and Open Source games

[I normally do nto post surveys but I checked this out and it seemed legitimate. - Scott]

SCO Group boss Jeff Hunsaker has done away with corporate speak in his latest seasonal note to partners and customers and replaced it with a terse, blunt message that reads: "Blah. Blah. Blah." Sadly the CEO and president of the bloodied and bruised software company was not immediately available for comment, but we think this link here speaks for itself and we have a screen dump here just in case it mysteriously disappears.

And I’m no Google fanboy, I just believe their browser is OK and that making a Qt4 user interface for Chromium could make Chrome a viable choice or alternative to Konqueror, thus enabling more users to switch from Gnome to the excellent KDE 4(.2).

While not necessarily a Linux article, the arch-nemeis (of some) Gates stands with many FOSS proponents in solidarity with and advocation for those in under-developed nations (as much as the founder, and continuing supporter, of a monopolistic organization can).

LXer Feature: 06-Feb-2009

Why does the newspaper deserve to be saved? Just because they have been around for a long time? That is not a good enough reason for me. Or the arguments that society will somehow be lessened by their absence or be less informed without them is arrogant and presumptuous.

On behalf of the KDevelop team I am happy to announce that we have reached the next milestone on our way to a final release, KDevelop 4 Beta 1. We feel that KDevelop 4, although in no way feature complete, is now usable and stable enough to get first feedback from a somewhat wider audience. Being a beta there are of course still bugs and missing functionality, but we have excellent language support for C++, integration of the CMake buildsystem, subversion, git and even starts of Qt GUI designer integration.

The Fedora project is proud to present the availability of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. Now is the time to test, now is the time to improve. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with testing Fedora 11 by way of Rawhide. Fedora 11 Alpha Screen Shots

That’s right!! Today is the 4th anniversary of Linuxtracker.org. We uploaded our first torrent (a slackware torrent) 4 years ago today and in honor we’re celebrating by giving away some pretty impressive stuff!! For starters we have an impressive pack of swag supplied by Pandora as well as a linuxtracker.org shirt.

I met MySQL founder Monty Widenius last year in Portland and he wasn't particularly thrilled with Sun at the time - he was however publicly hopeful that things would improve for him. Apparently they didn't. Widenuis has now officially resigned from Sun.

The Fedora Project team today announced the release of Fedora 11 Alpha. The release includes a number of new features including the new Windows Cross Compiler and a development release of Gnome 2.26 as the default desktop.

Ubuntu should not be considered merely the desktop Linux distribution of choice anymore if a new survey conducted by Canonical and open-source analyst firm RedMonk is an indicator. The majority of nearly 7,000 businesses surveyed that are using Ubuntu Linux said they use it for a range of mission-critical workloads that are typically run on servers, such as proxy/caching, routing, mail security, clustering, virtualization, data backup and databases.

Novell employees should brace for more layoffs, beyond the 100 or so the company has officially discussed. Chief executive Ron Hovsepian has told the company's employees in Germany that more cuts are coming, sources close to the company have told The Register. "The day after Hovsepian said no more cuts beyond 100, he told German employees (as per German law) that there would be more cuts coming," the source said.

Following up on his "State of the Penguin" report, Helios' Ken Starks issued a new blog entry on the state of Linux in business, and it still isn't great. Until Linux and open source software can overcome the perceptions of CEOs who think that "you get what you pay for," Linux will remain a second-class citizen, he writes.

Dell goes Linux and Thin Clients. How cool is that? Very. Well, well, how about that Dell? In a landmark decision, Dell announced that it has penned a deal to use Novell's SUSE Linux in its data centers to power its new OptiPlex FX 160 thin client systems. Wow. Dell is doing this to save money and simplify its IT infrastructure and requirements.

Microsoft plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday with patches for a range of serious security vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows users.

Nothing to do with Linux, except that if these were Linux vulnerabilities, they would already be released.

Myka, which recently began shipping an IPTV set-top box (STB), is offering a $100 discount to entice developers to roll up their sleeves and contribute to its device’s open-source, Linux-based software stack.

HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different virtual machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms. Currently it supports OpenVZ and Xen virtualization and is available for RHEL 4/5 as well as CentOS 4 and CentOS 5. This tutorial shows how to install it on a CentOS 5.2 server to control OpenVZ containers. I will also explain how to manage OpenVZ containers with HyperVM on a remote CentOS 5.2 server ("slave").

Hewlet Packard has released a custom interface for Ubuntu running on netbooks. DownloadSquad (DS) reports that the interface was designed for HP’s Mini 1000 Mi Edition netbook and is built on an Ubuntu 8.04 base.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption is viewed as a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise due to increased opportunity for productivity and integration, and requires significant changes for both business and IT executives. The goal of the conference, now in its second year, is to raise the dialogue about SOA and its use in healthcare, with a focus on its role as a transformation agent to add organizational value.

"The cloud" is just a new buzzword for an old concept, hosted services. While a number of grumpy old geekbeards swear they will never embrace "the cloud" because they do not trust their data in other hands, it's already happening. Google Mail, for whatever reason, is cool in ways that Hotmail and Yahoo mail never were. Google Apps are also cool. Inexpensive hosting services have been a staple of the do-it-yourself geek since forever. So, does refusing "the cloud" mean that the hardcore refusenik is condemned to a life of isolation? No, because there is a third alternative, and that is the Peer Cloud.