Ahmad Al-Obaidy IRAQI open sourcer

Digital Versus: "What is using Linux like in 2010? Can anybody pick it it? What about giving it a trial run first? Well, we're going to find out."

Serverwatch: "Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the Redmond enterprise OS maker you can't deny: It's very, very big, and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around."

Dedoimedo: "Several readers contacted me, urging me to review Zorin. My interest piqued, I set about the lanes of Google, searching for more information. The initial findings were quite positive. Zorin was praised in the reviews I read. The official website looked posh, sending a subliminal message that it was a kind of a freebie Mac OSX. "

Datamation: "The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door."

Threat Post: "Bad security isn't just bad because it allows you to be exploited. It's also a long term cost center. But more interestingly, even the most worthless security tools can be proven to �work� if you look at the numbers. Here's how."

Packt: "The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects."

LWN.net: "The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks."

MWR Labs: "The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent."

MWR Labs: "Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system."

Desktop Linux Reviews: The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum.

The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..."

Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."

The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"

Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved."

GRASS: "GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery."

Linux.com: "Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger."

CodePlex: "The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall."

The H Open: "A beta of an unofficial remix of Ubuntu 10.04.1, the "Saner Defaults Remix", which offers "better default choices" and a Mono-free experience, has been released"

The H open: "The GNU Project Debugger release team has published the second point update to version 7.0 of its standard debugger for the GNU software system."

ServerWatch: "This week, I've been experimenting with gnome-do, the Gnome application launcher that also allows you to specify particular actions to take on whatever file or application you've found."