Ars: In a presentation this week at the FOSDEM conference, SUSE developer Michael Meeks shed some light on the current status of the porting project.

EconomicTimes: "You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" a volunteer asks before leading us to meet Richard Stallman, the man who fights for free software day in and out.

InternetNews: It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release.

Datamation: Powered by Linux, the Spark tablet might prove to be little more than a toy. Yet it has greater potential.

IT World: "Canonical appears to be streamlining its focus on the desktop by cutting funding for Kubuntu work after the release of the upcoming 12.04 releases this April."

Linux and Open Source: "After its world-wide anti-Android patent lawsuit witch-hunt, could Apple having much of its iPhone line and iPads being banned for sale in Germany due to a patent violation happen to a nicer company?"

Wazi: "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) currently lists 68 approved open source licenses. Sounds like more than enough to suit any needs?"

Linux and Open Source: "Metro: An ugly, useless interface. Where have I seen this before? Wait, I know! Windows 1.0!"

Webopedia: "Macbuntu is an open source operating system fork of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS that features a Mac OS X-inspired desktop shell."

HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.2) on a CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) system."

LinuxLinks: "Unfortunately, there is currently a miserly selection of mature, open source script writing software available for Linux."

EnterpriseStorageForum: "It has been a while since we started the fsck project to test fsck (file system check) times on Linux file systems. After an extended delay, the Linux File System fsck testing results can now be presented."

Datamation: Google's speed-enhancing SPDY protocol lands in upcoming version of Mozilla's open source browser.

Linux User & Developer: "If I were a victim of actual piracy while sailing the seas, I would probably consider the word's rampant misuse in technology circles as massively insulting."

BeginLinux: "For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark."

IT world: "Has Google taken over the Internet?"

InternetNews: Google set to pump $6 million+ into open source development this summer.

Simple Help: awk, sed, and grep are three of my favorite tools in the Linux or UNIX command line.

ReadWriteWeb: Mozilla's Dietrich Ayala would like to have one million contributors to Firefox in 2012.

The H Open: "The affiliates, announced during Phipps' presentation at FOSDEM in Brussels, are the Apache Software Foundation, Creative Commons, Drupal, the Eclipse Foundation, FreeBSD, Joomla (via Open Source Matters), KDE, the Linux Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Plone, Sahana and Wikiotics."