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In September the 2011 Linux Graphics Survey came to an end, but due to Oktoberfest, AMD Bulldozer Linux testing, OpenBenchmarking.org developments, and other matters, I didn't have time to look at the survey results until this weekend when getting ready for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Here's the 2011 results looking at what Linux desktop end-users are running when it comes to graphics cards and drivers as well as their key concerns.

Here's a look at some of the most popular Linux news stories from this year to date...

Mega Games Pack (MGP) is a standalone client for Ubuntu that allows you to download and play hundreds of free Linux games. MGP is currently in beta testing mode. Some of the planned features include a themeable interface and support for global hotkeys.

Cloud computing is often positioned as a solution to scalability problems. In fact, it seems like almost every day I read a blog post about a company moving infrastructure to the cloud. At Mixpanel, we did the opposite. I’m writing this post to explain why and maybe even encourage some other startups to consider the alternative.

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works

The lengths we go to, to guard against mistakes...

Understanding options that can be used with the Linux command cat. This command can be used to view, create, or join multiple text files together.

While Skype has now expanded their Linux API support to allow other applications to take advantage of Skype video calls and other features, a few months ago the Skype protocol began to be reverse-engineered by an independent researcher. Skype took action several times against this work.

I take back anything bad I said about Kubuntu. I mean, it was true then, but definitely not now. Kubuntu is certainly among the best KDE distributions I've seen thus far.

Matthias Clasen announced last night, October 27th, the immediate availability for testing of the first development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings various fixes.

Can Linux be infected by MalWare and is it a big concern? The answer to that question is both Yes and No: Yes, Linux can be Infected and No, it isn’t a big nightmare – yet. Unless you downloaded the Unreal IRCd (Unreal IRC daemon) and installed it between November 2009 and June 2010 on your Linux server. There was a Trojan downloader in it. A Linux Trojan. See the Softpedia Article

Only Human Studios have launched a more recent trailer depicting their recently released Linux game Helena the 3rd. Helena The 3rd is an action platformer where you pilot a tank named Helena capable of jumping. Exploring various styled underground caverns and battling hostile robotic enemies. You'll need to leave your vehicle on occasion to explore rooms you can only get to by foot. Gameplay switches from 3rd person to FPS as you search for the powerful upgrades you'll need to progress to new areas.

This Wednesday, October 26th, Canonical and Dell proudly announced their brand-new retail program designed to sell Dell laptops and desktops pre-loaded with Ubuntu.

Virtualization seems to be everyone’s answer to every problem. For BYOD, it might just be the answer to stressed budgets and user happiness.

This week we look at a debate on the merits of cloud computing, WebGL and the future of the web, and amazingly bad password practices

Want to watch a Blu-ray on your PC? That’ll be £50 please. Simon, for one, is fed up of this game. Join him as he looks at one of the many wheezes the proprietary software and hardware industry are still trying to pull…

GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.

"Secure boot" is a technology described by recent revisions of the UEFI specification; it offers the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware. This document is intended to describe how the UEFI secure boot specification can be implemented to interoperate well with open systems and to avoid adversely affecting the rights of the owners of those systems while providing compliance with proprietary software vendors' requirements.

A step by step guide to creating a virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Manager.

You will find in this article, a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 on a computer with two hard drives. The steps involved in this tutorial are very simple. They are: Install Windows 7 anew or keep the existing installation; Download Ubuntu 11.10 from here, then transfer the downloaded image to a CD, DVD or USB Flash drive; Install Ubuntu 11.10 to the second hard disk; Modify the Windows 7 boot program, adding an entry for Ubuntu 11.10 in its boot menu.