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Canonical released Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat into public beta and the operating system features quite a few updates. Ubuntu 10.10 is built on GNOME 2.31 desktop environment and sports a revamped Ubuntu Software Center and better integration with Ubuntu One.

Linuxaria: "In these days all the new netbooks and most laptops have built-in webcam, or at least add one external costs very little, apart from the traditional use in video calls you can use our Linux box to create a monitoring device"

The annual Ohio LinuxFest is a genuine grass-roots community event. It is one of the most fun and most worthwhile Linux fests, and one of the most welcoming-- everyone from brand-new Linux users, people curious about Linux, to wizened gurus and everyone in between are welcome.

Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather it is a single, focused tool. However, if you're interested in simply backing up or restoring whole partitions to or from files, or copying one partition onto another, Clonezilla might be just what you're looking for.

Consortium says H.264 to be royalty free forever but it's not as free as it sounds. The battle for the future of web video has just heated up again. What started as a snub for Adobe's Flash technology when Apple announced it would not support Flash on its Internet-connected devices, has now turned into a fierce battle for dominance in web multimedia.

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 as it approaches completion…

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

Equinox GTK Theme + Faenza Icon Sets are probably the best combination of themes I have ever found for my Ubuntu. Last day, I was doing my regular repository update when I noticed some new Equinox packages. Two new themes were introduced by Equinox team and the whole package keeps getting better.

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."

Please read and share this article by Knowledge Ecology International's James Love, sign our anti-ACTA petition, and call on Obama to publish the treaty text.

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."

BitTorrent Inc. proudly announced a few hours ago the immediate availability for download of the first alpha version of uTorrent Server for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems!

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"."

A month ago we reported that the Amnesia game was getting ready for a Linux release and now the Swedish developers behind this game, known properly as "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" have released a demo of the game. Frictional Games has released this demo for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X gamers.

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."

Via Planet Fedora I saw Fedora design guru Máirín Duffy's extensive post on the redesign of Fedoraproject.org, with the general idea being to let not just fanboys but the rest of the world know what the Fedora distribution of Linux can do.

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."

This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Ubuntu 10.04 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Ubuntu 10.04). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful for virtual machines, for example, that don't have access to the host system's hardware - USB-over-IP allows virtual machines to use remote USB devices.