PC World: "When Canonical broke the news recently that Ubuntu 10.10 will include uTouch 1.0, a multitouch and gesture stack, it caused a flurry of excitement about the Linux release's potential for use in tablets."

MakeTechEasier: "Conky, the amazingly versatile and useful Linux desktop application, has a bit of a reputation. It's clearly a great app, but getting it configured can be a serious pain."

LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 6 help desk applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Groklaw: "I would like everyone to watch tridge's talk [.ogv] [mp3] on patents and how engineers can interact efficiently with patent lawyers, to get your knowledge across to them. More formats are linked from End Software Patents, if you prefer audio only."

Washington Post: "Google's Gmail isn't just a mailbox -- it now doubles as a phone. Users of Google's Web e-mail service can now call any phone in the U.S. or Canada for free (and make international calls for almost free) from within their browser."

IT Expert Voice: "Ubuntu Linux is best known as the most popular desktop Linux distribution, but it's developing a reputation as the easiest Linux for enterprises to deploy on the cloud."

Salt Lake Tribune: "A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk, opened fired on his firm's computer server with a .45-caliber automatic, and then told police someone had stolen his gun and caused the damage."

LWN.net: "Your editor is somewhat reluctant to contribute to the flood; at this point, the amount of real information which is available is minimal while the amount of speculation is high. This will be an important case, though; the world will be watching to see how it turns out. So here are a few thoughts to add to the pile."

Linux Magazine: "Get your wetsuit on, we're going data diving. Throughput benchmarks using IOzone on a common SATA disk, an Intel X25-E SSD, and Bcache, using the SSD to cache a single drive."

Linux Journal: "One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device."

Abhi Blog: "One thing I love about Linux is the ability to customize it in every way possible, and one such ability is the possibility of changing keyboard shortcuts."

ZDNet: "...they are essentially punishing customers for not upgrading by a certain date. This to me is bad practice."

IT Expert Voice: "The Apache Software Foundation, best known for the self-named popular open source Web server, has a variety of other technology that can help enterprises with databases, search, development, and more. Here's an overview of the best."

Linux Planet: "A previous article described how to make small panoramas with fotoxx. But when you get serious about panoramas on Linux, there's really only one answer: Hugin."

Mandriva Linux Chronicles: "A few days ago, thanks to one student, I realized that something funny was happening with my Linux netbook."

Phoronix: "Keith Packard has announced the official release of X.Org Server 1.9 this evening."

Ghacks: "So you've followed the latest series on KDE 4.5 (see Ghacks KDE 4.5 content) and you are now using the spectacular latest release from the KDE team. You want to use Compiz, but quickly realize that it is not necessary as KDE has it's own built-in compositing effects."

IT Wire: "Michael Pope is a pragmatic person by nature - a developer who, before he sets out on a task, takes sufficient care to create a soft-landing in case it is needed."

ZDnet: "The most recent release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has been available for a few months. You may not use Ubuntu, or perhaps you know little about Linux, so why should you care? The answer is because it offers a number of improved features, the best 10 of which I list here."

Dantti's Blog: "I think that when you are too close to a project you stop seeing it's defects, using KPK was so natural to me (since I knew it all) that I didn't see a point in changing much of it..."