"Canonical, together with Red Hat, today publishes a white paper highlighting the implications of these requirements for users and manufacturers. The paper also provides recommendations on how to implement “Secure Boot”, to ensure that users remain in control of their PCs."

The struggling automotive industry needs to embrace open software platforms if it wants to cash in on the growing automotive telematics and infotainment business, says an ABI Research white paper. Partnerships with Linux technology companies are cited by ABI as potential avenues for success.

The first One Hundred Paper Cuts milestone was completed on time! Ten Ubuntu paper cuts and one Kubuntu paper cut were fixed.

Written in 1995 by British computer game developer Chris Sawyer, Transport Tycoon Deluxe to this day has thousands of fans around the world. Although the game’s development ceased a long time ago, Transport Tycoon Deluxe continues to live and evolve through OpenTTD, an open-source version of the original game.

For open source and Linux, 2009 has been another year of big and surprising milestones, from the White House adopting open source technology to Microsoft submitting code for the Linux kernel."

Great free FPS game. It has in game level editor. Single player and multiplayer game play is available. Nice action and graphics.

Remember Mario games series? This is a nice and fun game that is a clone of Mario games. It brings back nostalgic feelings. Children will enjoy this game and it will keep them occupied for hours. The older crowd will enjoy the simple yet very entertaining game play. It is free software and open source.

Not from The 451 Group, unfortunately, but from Sun’s chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, who told the BBC he has been asked by the new administration to prepare a paper on how the use of open source software within government can improve both security and the cost-effective use of technology.

Syntensity, the open source metaverse where you can create and share 3d games scripted with V8 JavaScript, is working on a web-plugin that will let you play the game in-browser, just like Quake live! This will allow for better web integration such HTML game interfaces and in-browser scripting through services like Mozilla's Bespin