engadget.com: HP's Voodoo Envy 133, first announced in June, has struggled a bit off the blocks, with manufacturing problems. Like the MacBook Air before it, this laptop is about looks first, function second. It only takes 5 seconds to boot and you're in a Linux environment with Firefox, Pidgin, Skype and some crappy photo and music apps.

chxta.blogspot: Over the years I have built up a repertoire of skills that have seen me become the main man when it comes to system clean ups. Yes sir. I can secure them as tight as all the gold in Fort Knox. Then I met Linux...

opensfreedom.blogspot: Slackware and Ubuntu share a common line of thinking. They both aim to be simple. However, they have different approaches to simplicity and different target audiences.

• KDE 4.2 (trunk) Now Rocking On My Thinkpad T61

• Google's Picasa for Linux catches up to Windows
• Gentoo and Xorg 7.4
• True GNU: NVIDIA vs ATI
• Top 10 open source s/w support issues
• Enhance your DNS and DHCP services with dnsmasq
• good alternatives for DNS in Linux other than BIND
• How my own stupidity killed my Sansa Clip
• Having or not having Firefox 3.0.3
• Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well
• So, what am I doing with OpenSolaris?
• Where’s My Wireless, Linux?
• The lines between Open Source and Microsoft are starting to blur
• CIOs look to open source to do "more for less" in tough economy
• Norwegian standards body implodes over OOXML controversy
• The Cool Thing Is, They’re Free To Do It
• A nice .screenrc
• How not to get sued by open source coders
• Penguin Blood Ninja Fiasco - Unix And Linux Humor In A Game

daniweb.com/blogs: I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf. These are five things that I wish Linux had. Consider this as my wish list for the 2009 development calendar.

gizmodo.com: Netbooks were supposed to be this great inroad for Linux development, but it turns out that the XP side of the netbook business is doing a lot better in the area of customer satisfaction.

• First Look at Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Beta

• Gentoo Proud
• Linux Evolution Before Our Eyes
• Latin America booms for Red Hat
• On Fedora Remix

• Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 Now Available

• Status of the e1000e issue
• Just a normal day in Geekland 1/2
• Bandwidth Monitoring NG (bwm-ng)

fossbazaar.org: There's a lot of debate these days about the impact of the increasing number of paid developers in FOSS communities that started as volunteer efforts and still have significant numbers of volunteers.

informationweek.com/blog: In this edition: Chrome vs. Flock, a new OpenOffice.org release candidate, leaving behind free-as-in-beer, and a tiny open source gem.

linux.com: Pidgin, formerly known as Gaim, is a popular Instant Messaging (IM) client for Linux. It works with 16 different IM services, including AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google, and can handle simultaneous connections to as many of them as you like. This 10-minute video is a brief introduction to Pidgin.

Two days later than initially planned, "Codename" (or more traditionally KDE 4.1.2) was released just a few minutes ago. 4.1.2 is another one of those monthly bug fix and translation updates. No new features are allowed into the 4.x/ branches, so no new features went into KDE 4.1.2, but some nice bug fixes instead.

earthweb.com: An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux. The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have. This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy.

osnews.com: Recently the PC-BSD team released their latest stable version (PC-BSD 7) code-named Fibonacci Edition. Some of major changes from the previous version include a newer kernel, an experimental ZFS module, and a KDE 4 for desktop environment. Being a Linux junkie, I thought of this as a perfect opportunity to venture into the BSD arena.

• Is Toshiba ACPI Permanently Broken?

• Ubuntu on HP mini note
• Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboard

webmonkey.com: The first beta for the next major version of Ubuntu Linux is now available for download and testing. While it isn’t finished yet, the beta version of “Intrepid Ibex,” as this release is known, promises a number of important improvements.

junauza.com: The first thing that I did after I got a Twitter account was look for a desktop client for Linux. Unfortunately, I only found a few, and most them are still under development and their features are anemic.

reddevil62-techhead.blogspot: EVERYONE seems to love using Google Earth. It is such a thrill to use, allowing you to zoom across oceans and continents at the click of a mouse button, or to look at your own home from the heavens.

• How to install GIMP 2.6 on Linux

• Adding search to your Web site with Xapian and Omega
• OOo: Sorting mixed 5- and 9-digit zip codes
• How to Convert flv (flash video) to dvd iso in Ubuntu
• How to Play Super Nintendo (SNES) Game In Ubuntu Hardy
• Sharing Files with a USB Drive in Ubuntu
• Protect your network with pfSense firewall/router
• Bash Weather Script - World Update

beranger.org: That's here: FSF Campaigns: High Priority Free Software Projects. And I don't see any vision at all, but mostly politics.