"The concept of net neutrality is an issue that's been bandied about for a few years now in the US--among several other political hot potatoes you have probably heard about."

"CERN today unveiled the upgraded grid that will support the Large Hadron Collider when the titanic particle-punisher finally kicks back into life."

"Executive summary: Android is a screwed, hard-coded, non-portable abomination." Harald, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think!

Phoronix reports on some surprising results.

"BitTorrent is one of the most contentious technologies available. At least, that is, to the Old Order, those lovely suit-clad corporate types bent on holding technology forever in the days of the — manual — typewriter. The technology, and the suits' dreams of a world free of it, are on trial in Australia, where Linux made an appearance today — at the defense table."

The latest release of Mandriva, a Linux distribution, is now available.

Carla Schroder shares her scanner adventures.

"This article talks about options for configuring or tuning the software layers to improve the performance of SSD drives."

"SSDs (Solid-State Drives) are a hot topic right now for a number of reasons; not the least of which being their power to performance ratio. But to better understand SSDs you should first get a grip on how they are constructed and the features/limitations of these drives."

"Research firm's numbers contradict lower figures touted by Microsoft on Linux netbooks".

"A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off." I wish them well with this project.

Another installment of The H's Kernel Log. Title tells.

"ApacheCon 09 Apache Software Foundation (ASF) pioneers have toasted 10 years of independence and successful code development at their annual conference in California. Speakers who spun-up the project in its early days celebrated building a community that has stayed (mostly) friendly and dedicated to the ideal of building open-source code. Also it’s a group that’s remained beyond the control of tech vendors."

Phoronix has announced the beta launch of Phoromatic, a remote management system for the Phoronix Test Suite.

The rollout of GNOME 3.0 has been delayed.

"During the NLUUG end-of-year conference "The Open Web" in Ede, Netherlands, we did an interview with keynote speaker Steven Pemberton. Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the Center for Math and Information Technology in Amsterdam and has been involved with the web since it's first incarnation - he vividly remembers the day the connection from Europe to the US was doubled to 128 Kbit."

"Like the ticking of a Swiss watch, every month the KDE team brings you a new release. November's edition of KDE is a bugfix and translation update to KDE 4.3."

"Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro." The LXer reader comments are worthwhile to check out. See: http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/29926 .

"Type designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption could come sooner than many expected."

"The goal of the Open-FCoE project: to encourage and support the development of a native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) code for Linux, so organizations can leverage their Ethernet networks to connect existing servers to Fibre Channel SANs — without having to be locked into a particular vendor's technology."

"The Ubuntu Linux menagerie has birthed a new creature, the Karmic Koala, with the release last week of Ubuntu Linux 9.10."

Andy Updegrove writes about the vanishing beauty of the book.

Glyn Moody comments on the latest proposed version of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF).

This article takes a look at some of the new features in the latest Ubuntu release.

Matthew Tippett is leaving AMD for Palm and for Phoronix.

..."a discussion regarding the X Server release and development process has continued for the past several days among key X.Org developers." Phoronix has summarized this discussion here.

"Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has since been at the helm of one of the most successful and popular open source software development projects."

Phoronix tests the latest Ubuntu release (and older ones) on old PC hardware.

"Sequoia Voting Systems plans to publicly release the source code for its new optical scan voting system, the company announced Tuesday — a remarkable reversal for a voting machine maker long criticized for resisting public examination of its proprietary systems."

Andy Updegrove tells an interesting and even un-boring standards story.

Lancelot is an alternative menu to the traditional K menu.

Dave Phillips highlights 3 Linux audio applications.

" This release is the sixth modular release of the X Window System."

Details of this release can be found here. LLVM is an open source compiler infrastructure project.

Glyn Moody reflects on licenses and the free software community.

GRUB, also known as the Grand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable bootloader that supports a number of platforms. It is used by most Linux distributions.

This article discusses two Linux-friendly, DRM-free audiobook online options - EMusic and LibriVox.

A review of the latest release of Amarok, a music player.

How to run a successful open source project.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols' comments on some alternatives to Windows 7.

"How enterprise software giants separate you from more of your company’s money."

This article discusses IO schedulers, processors, and power management

How to configure the Linux kernel.

Aaron Seigo, KDE developer, highlights the problem with jargon and configuration options.

Glyn Moody comments on cloud computing and open source.

Carla Schroder comments on Darl McBride's departure from SCO.

"Software pioneer Mitch Kapor thinks Microsoft's war against open source is over – and that it must be seen in its historical context."

"It can be hard to get paid for producing free-licensed works. Software represents a niche where a lot of exceptions can be found, but for aesthetic works, the problem is severe. This has spurred a lot of innovative ideas for better incentive systems."

"Sequoia Voting Systems has inadvertently released the SQL (Structured Query Language) code for its voting databases." Oops.

This article highlights the positive changes Ubuntu has made to the Linux distro ecosystem.

Guido van Rossum, the originator of the Python language, wants a feature-freeze on all language changes for several years. Seems way too long to me.

This article looks at OpenInkpot, a new Linux distribution for e-book readers.

Woof, Woof! :-)

A summary of two talks at the recent Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC).

This article takes a look at the new feaatures of the xorg-server, and discusses the planning process for future releases.