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The Free Software Foundation Latin America has sent out an announcement for its 2.6.33-libre kernel distribution. "Linux hasn't been Free Software since 1996, when Mr Torvalds accepted the first pieces of non-Free Software in the distributions of Linux he has published since 1991. Over these years, while this kernel grew by a factor of 14, the amount of non-Free firmware required by Linux drivers grew by an alarming factor of 83.

Linux Gaming News: "Earlier this week, Big Fish Games, which bought out indie developer Grubby Games last year, canceled affiliate sales for the Linux versions of all games produced by Grubby Games."

Tech Source: "We've seen plenty of "Best of the Decade" lists around, but not one is related to Linux distribution. So it's only fitting that we will give credit to the best Linux distros that dominated the last decade (2000-2009), or most part of it."

As increasing numbers of applications move online, the need for functional cross-browser testing continues to grow, which is good news for the open source Selenium project—a popular automated application testing tool with nearly 3 million downloads to date.Read more at Developer.com.

Paul Sherman has released Absolute Linux 13.0.5, an updated version of the Slackware-based distribution featuring the lightweight IceWM window manager.Read more at DistroWatch

Aaron Seigo writes: "freedesktop.org is in really bad shape. There, I said it. Most of us knew it, but now it's been said. The good news is that it's rescuable. The even better news is that people want to rescue it, and some are actually doing things to make it happen." [Read more at aseigo]

Samba's Jeremy Allison examines freedom, Linux, and DRM..."Last weekend I finished a home project I’ve been slowly working on for several months. I finally finished converting all the CD’s in my collection from physical media to digital files. It turns out that every CD I ever bought, which now comes to somewhere around 400, fits within 160 gigabytes of storage. It’s hard to buy a new disk that small these days, that’s how much storage capacity has increased.... [more]

17 years later, and Linux is still rising... "It is hard to guess how many programmers and system administrators have been educated by the Linux development project, but it forms the core of what so many experts and newbies believe in terms of what an operating system should have in it, how that code is created, and how the systems software stack that rides atop of it is created and maintained.

"Linux" is so much catchier than "free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT," that's for sure... "Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began,

Some good coverage of the recent Linux Plumbers Conference...