Technology & Life Integration: "Three computers, each running Linux, Windows and MacOS respectively meet up at a lan party. It is a typical lan party. A semi dark room, lit only by the glow of monitors with network cables snaking haphazardly across the floor littered with empty bottles, crushed chip packets and piled up against the wall, a stack of pizza boxes"

Packt: "This article by Ninad Sathaye, author of Python Multimedia Beginner's Guide, will introduce you to the fundamentals of developing animations using Python and Pyglet multimedia application development frameworks."

Phoronix: "Unigine OilRush is the game title and it will be available for Linux. Will this be the best Linux native game we see in 2010?"

Linux.com: "Mark Twain has been quoted as saying that he respected a person who could spell a word more than one way. Unfortunately, Twain's enthusiasm for creative spelling isn't widely shared today, at least in the professional world."

Tech Drive-in: "After browsing through LinApp website for sometime, I was awed by the sheer number of commercial applications available for Linux. Never in my wildest of imaginations did I thought that, this many number of commercial applications ever existed for Linux."

EnterpriseMobileToday: "Archos today introduced five Android-powered tablets, two due out this month and three later in the fall, ranging in price from $100 to $349, all shipping with Android 2.2."

Cyber Cynic: "A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?" "

Djere Web Services: "My household is not a pure GNU/Linux household. I do have one Windows 7 computer system due to the fact that I have some family members that prefer Windows. As a web designer, computer programmer, and a business man, I take full advantage of this situation."

Ubuntuka: "There is rather lively buzz around Mozilla Firefox 4 future release that should happen soon and of course meet all the expectations of the community and millions of Firefox users. But what do they all expect to see in the latest version and why its long-awaited final release should be a great deal?"

Die Entwickler der freien Datenbank PostgreSQL haben zwei Monate nach der ersten Betaversion von Version 9.0 und über fünf Jahre nach PostgreSQL 8.0 den ersten Veröffentlichungskandidaten der kommenden Variante des Systems veröffentlicht. Eingebaute Replikation und viele weitere Neuerungen sollen PostgreSQL zu noch mehr Verbreitung verhelfen.

Die Plone Foundation hat die Version 4 ihres in Python geschriebenen Content Management Systems veröffentlicht. Neben vielen Korrekturen weist das Content-Management-System auch einige Neuerungen auf.

Der Interessenverbund der Java User Groups hat die erste Ausgabe der Zeitschrift »Java aktuell« aufgelegt, die Erfahrungen, Ideen und Lösungen für Java-Entwickler präsentieren will.

Das freie Webanalyse-Werkzeug Piwik ist in der Version 1.0 erschienen. Das unter der Gnu Public Licence stehende Piwik kann sich zu einer ernstzunehmenden Konkurrenz für den Platzhirsch Google mausern, denn Nutzer können es an ihre Bedürfnisse anpassen, es liefert die Berichte in Echtzeit, erlaubt eine Maskierung der IP-Adressen und die Analyseergebnisse sind nur den Webseitenbetreibern...

Ein internationales Entwicklerteam hat damit begonnen, ein freies Krankenhausinformationssystem (KIS) zu erstellen. Die Entwickler kommen aus Deutschland, Brasilien, Frankreich und Griechenland.

Das Programm der zweiten Auflage der Bacula-Konferenz, die am 22.9.2010 in Köln stattfindet, steht nun fest.

Die KDE-Entwickler haben KDE SC 4.5.1, das erste monatliche Update von KDE SC 4.5, freigegeben.

IT News Today: "The verdict? KDE 4.5 had promise, but a lack of new features and the introduction of brand new regressions keep it from perfection."

fewt@blog:~$ _: "I am always interested in a good debate of Linux vs Windows. That said, I read an article this morning talking about the five reasons that Linux beat Windows for servers. By the time I finished reading the article though I had a list of many reasons why the article was actually wrong."

Ontario Linux Fest: "After much thought I sadly announce that there will not be an Ontario GNU/Linux Fest Conference this year."

The Chromium Blog: "For some time now, there's been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium's graphics system. New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work, but it also lets Chromium begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model..."