informationweek.com/blog: Much noise has been made in the past week or so about President-elect Barack Obama's creation of a governmental chief tech officer position. My question is: What will be their stance on open source? Will they lean towards it, mandate it, forbid it ... or ignore it entirely?

fsf.org: "The fact that Microsoft has repeatedly extended XP cutoff deadlines and is releasing a public beta of Windows 7 today is proof of Vista's failure"

channelinsider.com: Asus offers a desktop PC that is designed for the world of Web 2.0 and green computing for under $320.

• Update to openSUSE 11.1

• No Paradise
• Unofficial KDE 3.5 Live CD for openSUSE 11.1
• Upgrading to OpenSuSE 11.1 Some issues
• Tips to openSUSE 11.1 the most usable ever

phoronix.com: Most netbooks currently on the market offer 512MB or 1GB of system memory and only a single DDR2 SO-DIMM slot. However, with most of the netbooks a 2GB memory module could be easily installed, but what performance benefits does that yield for an Intel Atom powered device?

oneclicklinux.com: I admit that many folks out there really prefer Photoshop over every other graphics app. Eve though the Gimp is as featured packed and as easy to use, folks just prefer Photoshop. Enter Disney.

royal.pingdom.com: Lego started selling their now world-famous bricks 60 years ago, and has a certain inherent geek appeal. This post shows what happens when computer geeks combine their love for Lego with their love for certain popular tech companies and their logos.

Using UNIX in a day-to-day office setting doesn't have to be clumsy. The first step toward increasing your office productivity using the UNIX command line is to take a close look at your current day-to-day habits.

junauza.com: If you happen to own a netbook, it is best to use medium-sized wallpapers that are optimized for small display. Because of that, I decided to collect and share to you all some really fresh, cool, and cute Linux wallpapers that will surely look good on any netbook monitor.

linuxloop.com: Last year CES practically seemed like some sort of Linux show. It seemed like every company had their own netbook - based on Linux, of course. This year is not like that.

pcworld.com: One of the clear trends at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is the proliferation of ways to get Internet-based content onto your TV. But I’ve seen only one system that’s free (as in both speech and beer) and doesn’t seem to restrict where you get content: Boxee.

• TrueCrypt 6.1 Install Guide For Fedora 10

• A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 5: constraints
• Fixing sound-juicer segmentation faults when clicking "Preferences"
• Adding fonts to OpenOffice.org on Linux with 'spadmin.bin'
• openSUSE Network Installation/Upgrade Without CD/DVD
• Adding more to less
• Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 on Gentoo
• type - Linux command to know how a word will be interpreted
• Is your firewall IPv6 aware?
• Funtoo Portage is now Git-Friendly
• NVIDIA 180.22 Linux Driver Released
• Open source is liberal? Nah
• The_Source I interview Elizabeth Garbee from Ohio Linuxfest 2008
• WiFi digital camera runs Linux
• Hidden Linux : Bootchart
• Palm Pre hands-on: video
• Hardest-to-understand EULA *ever* when you install WoW on GNU/Linux
• Interview with Ubuntu Developer Jordan Mantha
• Linux script to collect system statistics and send to your email
• Grub Password-protection
• How to overclock Nvidia cards in Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 & 9.04
• Using Sudo
• OpenSSL accepts forged certificates

desktoplinux.wordpress: How about a smack down between 3 of my favorite distros?

workswithu.com: It’s paper-writing time again, which means I’ve spent many long hours lately with OpenOffice Writer (for now, I’m still using version 2.4). Writer is a great application and a useful tool for getting work done. But there are some components that I continue to find endlessly frustrating, namely…

Paula Rooney: The code freeze for the third beta of Firefox 3.1 is scheduled for next Tuesday but could slip if Javascript bugs are not resolved soon.

Recently I purchased an eeepc 1000H and was quite impressed with the new and different operating system. I hail from a windows only background and anything apart from the Microsoft offerings I have left well alone, until NOW.

ostatic.com/blog: Now here is an open source (or at least partially open source) project that may have a strong chance of drawing legal action from Microsoft: ReactOS.

lovehateubuntu.blogspot: The first step to learning Linux is actually installing it. There are some pre-requisites to installing it yourself, as there would be with installing any operating system: you need some computer know-how.

Caitlyn Martin: During the holidays I received some Hanukkah gelt from family specifically earmarked for buying myself a new computer. I ordered the one that seemed to give me the most power for the least money in a very small and lightweight case: a Sylvania g Netbook.

arstechnica.com: Yesterday, while looking through the Comdex news feeds, I stumbled across a Mini Mi 1000 HP product announcement from HP. What caught my eye on the product page wasn't the description of the GUI, it was what followed on the next line. Preceded by "Please note" in bold, the HP page states "the Linux command line interface is disabled on this edition."