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Last week when releasing the Linux 2.6.35-rc2 kernel, Linus was upset with the number of late merges and other commits that were receiving pull requests in the Linux 2.6.35 kernel development cycle when the work should instead be now about bug and regression fixes. As such, Linus was going to be much more stringent about what he would allow within the Linux 2.6.35-rc3 kernel and he has indeed followed his tighter rules.

Some netbooks, notebooks and desktop PCs are shipped with compact operating systems designed to boot particularly quickly. Among those offering such systems are BIOS and firmware specialist Phoenix Technologies. Its HyperSpace system is said to stand out because reportedly it can use the virtualisation functions of various Intel processors to run simultaneously with the main operating system and not just as an alternative. However, Phoenix has now sold its HyperSpace division to PC market leader HP for $12 million.

"Ubuntu's 'meritocracy' is flawed to say the least. Ubuntu's developers are grossly uninformed as to what the Ubuntu community and users want and need. We need someone who is actually informed of what the community wants. Consensus means "majority of opinion", of course getting a vote from everyone in the community would be impossible, but this would be a direct-democracy approach..."

Content control software, also commonly known as web filtering software, is software which is designed and optimised to determine what content can be viewed by the user. This software is particularly relevant to information supplied by a web browser.

Personally I was very excited when MeeGo was first announced. After having used the 1.0 release of MeeGo that is targeted for netbook devices I really must say: I'm really not impressed.

We recently touched on one way of being a Linux gamer. Recent news that Valve Software will soon be releasing a Linux client promises to provide another option for Linux gamers. The news couldn not come at a better time as the world will shortly focus on gaming with the upcoming, industry-only E3 conference, the crown jewel of the gaming industry.

Some months ago, I wrote article “3 Reasons why we shouldn’t use Linux“, after a lot of comments on the article in the favor of Linux, I thought i should also try Linux.

Users of free software are nothing if not passionate. Most of them care deeply about the code they use, and will happily plunge into the flamewars that flare up regularly across the Web. The core focus of those arguments is well established by now: against Mac fans, it's about the virtues of true openness and freedom; against Windows fans (do they still exist?) it's about those, as well as security, speed, stability, etc. But there's another aspect that rarely gets discussed, and yet it represents one of GNU/Linux's greatest strengths: the breadth of hardware platforms supported.

Linux does many things differently than Windows, and users new to Linux are sometimes confused and frustrated because the Windows systems they are used to don't apply to the Linux world. Here are five things that all Linux users should know to help ease the transition between operating systems.

In previous reviews, I looked at the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Now it’s time to look at a lightweight alternative to both of them, Lubuntu. Lubuntu uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) instead of the chunkier GNOME or KDE desktops. Lubuntu 10.04 is not an official derivative of Ubuntu; it is not supported by Canonical. However, it is serves a very important purpose by providing an Ubuntu distro geared toward older or less powerful computers.

The market for open source hardware is hotting up, with the top 13 companies in the space turning over nearly $50million last year – according to Phil Torrone, designer at Adafruit industries. Speaking with Adafruit’s founder Limor Fried at the O’Reilly Foo Camp East in May, Torrone also claims there's plenty more money to be made…

Sony did a press release about 3D tv's and blue ray players and they anncounced a android BD remote app.I know not everybody is to happy with Sony but this is a nice movement. I would like many more manufacturers to release remote control apps for my favorite device.

A survey from the Eclipse Foundation, which oversees development of the open source Eclipse IDE, shows that 32.7 percent of respondents use Linux as their primary desktop development system, up almost 6 points from 2009. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro among Eclipse developers.

Adobe has released a Flash Player update that fixes a flurry of vulnerabilities including a critical zero-day flaw (CVE-2010-1297) that has been actively exploited in attacks since last week. In addition to the numerous security patches, the new Flash player 10.1.53.64 version brings major functionality and performance improvements.

The Danish language makes use of two letters [åÅ] and [øØ] which are not on my Icelandic keyboard. Having to switch permanently between keyboard layouts all the time with key combinations (Windows way of doing things) such as alt+shift is tiresome! It turns out that there’s a very easy way to switch between layout in GNOME.

With more companies being drawn to the possibilities offered by open source source software, Ubuntu company Canonical and open source consultacy, The Open Learning Centre have teamed up to offer a workshop on Linux within business. There's a growing interest in open source software, the new coalition government has made encouraging noises about the use of the technology and the companies are hoping to tap into that interest with the aid of some enthusiastic Linux devotees.

"The problem with emulating Windows -- or since 'WINE Is Not an Emulator' I should say: the problem with developing a 'Windows Compatibility Layer' -- is you end up having the same problems Windows has..."

LinuxTag 2010 is going on right now in Berlin, one of--if not the--most influential annual European Linux tech events. There's a lot of community energy at a show like LinuxTag, which is why KDE e.V, the foundation dedicated to supporting the KDE interface, probably chose LinuxTag as the platform from which to launch their latest community membership drive. Under the name "Join the Game," KDE e.V. is inviting new individual supporting members to join the organization for 100 Euro/year, to help support their ongoing and expanding programs. If that's all you want to do--and supporting KDE is worthy in and of itself--US$121 (under current exchange rates) is a reasonable amount to help support the development this popular and useful desktop interface. But is this really community building?

Ubuntu user management. Ubuntu has three different types of users who are listed on the Ubuntu server; root, service accounts and regular users. Users on Ubuntu have login, resource and environmental options that can be set. This is the first in a series on how to manage users on Ubuntu.

So you're wondering why even though Adobe released their Flash Player 10.1 yesterday, there's no 64bit Linux build available for download. Well, it seems Adobe discontinued the 64bit Flash Player 10.1 beta for Linux.