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What to do on a long weekend? Digikam, Ardour, Drupal, new computers....

Cyber Cynic: "I currently use OpenSUSE on my servers, and Ubuntu, Fedora, and MEPIS on my desktops and laptops. Now, I have a new resident on my desktops: Mint 9."

Linux Gaming News: "Today Frictional Games, the makers of the Penumbra series, has released a demo for their upcoming first person survival horror �Amnesia: The Dark Descent�. Players with Windows, Mac or Linux all get a chance to experience a small slice of the dread and terror contained in the full game."

LWN.net: "Your editor was recently amused to encounter this ZDNet article on "Android's dirty little secret." According to that article, the openness of Android has led to an increase in the control held by handset manufacturers and wireless carriers and the fragmentation of the platform."

The H Open: "Nearly three months after the last update, the Songbird developers have released version 1.8.0 of their open source media player, code named "Orbital"."

Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "Jono wrote about his new ZaReason Strata, and Rich wrote about his new ZaReason something-else, so I figured I'd let you all know about the ZaReason Terra HD I said I wanted to order, now that I've had it about a month."

Linux User and Developer: "Ubuntu 10.10 has strived to build on the choices of Lucid, bringing bleeding edge versions of software whilst maintaining the stability that Lucid provided. Join Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, as he takes an insiders look at Maverick Meerkat"

Network World: "People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It's dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free."

Tech Comics: "The process of ending a friendship is far more complicated than it once was."

Open Source at Google: "Whilst at GUADEC (the GNOME conference) I did a series of video interviews with participants. Several have now been published here:"

Low Cost Computing: "The search for the perfect kernel scheduler is like searching for the Holy Grail. Linux 2.6 started with the O(1) scheduler, which solved a lot of issues for real-time processes. However, it didn't scale to large NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines."

Desktop Engineering: "GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities."

eWeek: "Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware."

Maximum PC: "In this guide, we'll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it."

The H Open: "At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo"

CIO: "The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October."

KDE.news: "The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications"

Linux Devices: "Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet."

Linux Magazine: "Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw."

Softpedia: "The second beta of the next GNOME release has arrived full of bug fixes and updates. Many of the standard packages have been updated for GNOME 2.32 Beta 2 (2.31.91) and more translation work has been done."