http://linuxo.com – Beez Speaks: "The only conclusion I can draw is that the audience that Ubuntu attracts are not your usual 'computer-savvy' user who has no problem reinstalling something, switching distros or even forking a distribution. They obviously seem to want something that just works, which is not the product Mark Shuttleworth supplies." (General)

http://linuxo.com – Nowadays hard drive manufactures are switching to a new hard drive technology which uses 4KB sectors size instead of conventional 512B. This new technology requires little tweaks to get a better performance in comparison to out-of-the-box settings. This article will describe some simple to follow instruction on how to partition the WD EARS hard-drive to get better overall performance. (General)

http://www.linuxmint.com – With the assistance of the Svea Court of Appeals, the main Hollywood movie studios have landed a triple blow on OpenBitTorrent, The Pirate Bay and site founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. The Court handed out three injunctions yesterday, one of which took the OpenBitTorrent tracker offline. (Distributions)

http://www.ubuntuhcl.org – All core features work including dynamic resolution switching. Quick Launch button is not recognized by btnx. Macro record button not tested. Tested under Ubuntu 10.04. (Hardware)

http://linuxers.org – Most people don't bother about what MySQL engine they are using. Generally, it doesn't even matter, the default MyISAM does the job really well but sometimes switching to some other engine or at least knowing what others are capable of, could speed up a lot of things for you. Managing transactions for a Financial website was how I came across InnoDB engine at first. (General)