Linux Stories for 2010

Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance 198
Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux 500
Openwall Linux 3.0 — No SUIDs, Anti-Log-Spoofing 122
Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead 190
Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel 283
PS3 Jailbreak Now Legal In Spain 113
Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux 481
Stallman Worried About Chrome OS 393
Does the End of KOffice Mean the End of KDE? 233
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Makes a First Appearance 179
Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 191
OpenSUSE To Offer a Rolling Release Repository 72
USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s 163
Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface 382
Linus On Branching Practices 90
Linux Radio 141
KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look 224
Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway 140
Ubuntu's Engineering Director Debunks Rolling Release Rumours 80
Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases 246
GNU/Linux and Enlightenment Running On a Fridge 222
AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver 126
Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix 289
Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs 235
Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash 221
Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch 402
Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? 676
The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders 603
AMD Joins Intel's MeeGo OS Effort 117
Windows Cluster Hits a Petaflop, But Linux Retains Top-5 Spot 229
Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool 159
Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick 88
CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy 385
Red Hat's Secret Patent Deal 95
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
Can Windows, OS X and Fedora All Work Together? 375
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 228
Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won 262
Telstra Violating the GPL? 197
Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? 645
The Linux Programming Interface 73
Roku Now Licensing Its Media Player Design 53
Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland 640
China Mobile Joins the Linux Foundation 56
5 Years of Linux Kernel Releases Benchmarked 52
Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel 230
Fedora 14 Released and Reviewed — Advanced, and Not For Wimps 200
KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt 196
Hiding Backdoors In Hardware 206
Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited 244
Microsoft Charging Royalties For Linux 286
Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME 514
LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux 452
In the Face of Android, Why Should Nokia Stick With MeeGo? 336
The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? 472
Who Invented the Linux-Based Wireless Router? 154
Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? 222
RDS Protocol Bug Creates a Linux Kernel Hole, Now Fixed 89
Linux 2.6.36 Released 238
Red Hat CEO Says Software Vendor Model Is Broken 223
Desktop Linux Is Dead 1348
Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises 237
Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender 480
Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available 473
Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta For Android, Maemo 128
Ubuntu Won't Moan To EU About Microsoft 248
Panasonic Invites Gamers To the Jungle 74
Take This GUI and Shove It 617
Red Hat Settles Patent Case 76
Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin 124
Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched 172
Linux Kernel Development 3rd Ed 53
Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores 462
Red Hat Urges USPTO To Deny Most Software Patents 175
Linux Monument Unveiled in Russia 15
DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP) 370
The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel 177
Canonical Designer Demos Ubuntu Context-Aware UI 237
Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines 488
Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? 467
Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights 274
Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia 206
Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration 442
VMware Looks To Acquire Novell's SUSE Unit 161
Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' 340
Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux 240
Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 702
Shuttleworth Answers Ubuntu Linux's Critics 382
Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen 654
India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January 205
Why Google Isn't Pushing Android For Tablets 224
Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers 350
Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 590
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released 291
Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released 226
Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS' 206
Android Fork Brings Froyo To 12 Smartphones 193
No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice 262
Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable 429
Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month 273
Glibc Is Finally Free Software 337
Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 473
Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' 464
Steam Not Coming To Linux 520
Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted 209
Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series 245
Gmail Video Chat Now Available On Linux 113
Root Privileges Through Linux Kernel Bug 131
Linux X.org Critical Security Flaw Silently Patched 259
Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities 316
Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 185
Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! 225
KDE 4.5 Released 302
Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations 548
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Frozen 202
Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet 104
Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released 159
First GNOME Census Results 175
Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon 133
Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth 655
GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011 201
Free Software, a Matter of Life and Death 197
Building a $200 Linux PC 300
Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website 473
What To Do With an Old G5 Tower? 417
Open Source Participation Gains Support In China 35
India's $35 Tablet Computer 294
The Scalability of Linus 239
Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs 133
Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict 718
Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI 99
Damn Vulnerable Linux — Most Vulnerable Linux Ever 227
Wine 1.2 Released 427
Measuring LAMP Competency? 453
OpenSUSE 11.3 Is Here 156
PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora 56
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux 578
REMnux, the Malware Analysis Linux OS 58
OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen 171
A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105
MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds 150
Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops 119
Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support 301
Security Vulnerability Bingo 21
Qualcomm Makes Open-Source 3D Snapdragon Driver 84
Best Format For OS X and Linux HDD? 253
Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros 221
Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror 173
Hemisphere Games Reveals Osmos Linux Sales Numbers 131
Nokia Trades Symbian For MeeGo In N-Series Smartphones 184
Skype Releases Open SDK 108
Is LGP Going the Way of Loki Software? 124
Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux 210
Bluecherry Releases GPL'd MPEG-4 Driver 45
Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell 361
Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access 95
Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? 300
Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux 272
Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? 487
Adobe Goes To Flash 10.1, Forgoes Security Fix For 10 320
Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial 168
Canonical Developing Ubuntu OS For Tablets 228
A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 122
Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks 216
Hardware Companies Team Up To Fight Mobile Linux Fragmentation 47
Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking? 138
Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device 167
New Handheld Computer Is 100% Open Source 195
Free Software Wins Court Battle in Quebec 172
Frank Zappa's Influence On Linux and FOSS Development 195
Google's Chrome OS To Launch In Fall 375
Google Reportedly Ditching Windows 1003
Physics Platformer Gish Goes Open Source 58
How Google Can Make Android Truly Tablet-Worthy 168
CERT Releases Basic Fuzzing Framework 51
iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu 264
Sneak Preview For Coming KDE SC 4.5 249
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed 164
Work Underway To Return Xen Support To Fedora 13 93
Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux 347
Fedora 13 Is Out 268
Slackware 13.1 Released 155
Fragmentation vs. Obsolescence In the Android Ecosphere 315
Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? 374
HP Confirms Slate To Run WebOS 178
First Pandora Console Reaches Customer 271
Novell Reportedly Taking Bids From Up To 20 Companies 124
Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks? 179
Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream 96
Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS 263
Linux 2.6.34 Released 268
Penumbra: Overture Goes Open Source 74
Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll 239
Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat 269
Acer To Launch Chrome OS Netbook Next Month 92
Cherrypal Mini-Laptop Now Runs Android 97
US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update 349
Peppermint OS One Review 110
Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way 572
Mandriva Up For Sale 167
Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS 266
MythTV 0.23 Released 214
Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu 251
When Internet Radios Get Affordable 139
Diskless Booting For the Modern Age 99
Linux Users Donate Twice As Much As Windows Users, On Average 145
Law Professors Developing Patent License For FOSS 41
Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu 372
MMORPG Ryzom Released Under AGPL 117
New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System 132
Hot Sales In China For Wi-Fi Key-Cracking Kits 207
Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web 180
Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick 319
Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Troll Acacia 89
Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) 567
Sony Sued Over PS3 "Other OS" Removal 546
SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright 286
Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? 344
Ubuntu Linux Claims 12,000 Cloud Deployments 165
Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? 297
More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1 148
Ubuntu LTS Experiences X.org Memory Leak 320
Good, Portable "Virtual" Linux Distro? 261
Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts 411
Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers 742
Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory 93
Checking For GPL Compliance, When the Code Is Embedded 75
Devs Discuss Android's Possible Readmission To Linux Kernel 151
Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable 393
Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds 396
Is OS/2 Coming Back? 432
How To Exploit NULL Pointers 139
WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad 536
Ubuntu on a Dime 531
What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? 618
VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek 133
DIY 80GB iPod Touch 110
GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line 276
Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google 224
Geohot Brings Other OS Support To PS3 With Custom Firmware 270
Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid 360
Researcher Releases Hardened OS "Qubes"; Xen Hits 4.0 129
Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base 296
Songbird Drops Linux Support 356
Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release 115
Gnome 2.30 Released 138
Novell Wins vs. SCO 380
"Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 739

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