The Linux user has a reputation as a group that doesn't like paying for things. That stereotype may or may not be fair, but either way, it hasn't stopped Canonical from introducing more than a dozen for-purchase software packages to Linux users over the last 10 months. Here's a look at what the company has done, and what it says about Linux users in the open source channel.
It might be hard to believe, now that the Software Center has assumed such a central role in Ubuntu for adding, removing and maintaining software applications for Linux users, that back in the day – until 2009, to be exact – the Software Center didn't exist at all.
So if you are a Linux user who till now had things for free, maybe its time to empty your pockets a bit .

The Washington State University Linux Users Group recently hosted a 24 hour LAN party where more than 75 students and faculty members pitted their level 52 Druids and level 48 Paladins against each other.

Junior computer science major Eric Ball, president of the club, said that the event draws those with a mutual interest in gaming together. Participants began arriving to the even t on campus at 6pm on a Friday with towers, monitors, TV and console games in tow. Pizza and Monster Energy drinks were enjoyed by all, and then the computers were connected and the party really began. There were three tournaments that took place during the course of the 24 hour party: Worms Armageddon, Counter-Strike: Source, and Starcraft II. Each tournament had a unique prize, including an Israeli gas mask that went to one lucky winner.

Updates to the Linux kernel are always exciting because of the advance look they provide at what's to come in upcoming Linux distributions, and Thursday's 2.6.39 release is no exception.
Perhaps most notable for the hundreds of new drivers the new Linux includes–portending a world of even better hardware support in upcoming distributions of the free and open source operating system–the newly released Linux kernel also includes virtualization improvements, simplified firewall configuration and a host of other new features.

Though it was delayed by a few days, work on version 2.6.39 "has been fairly 'easy'," Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote in an explanatory e-mail announcing the release.
Among the new and enhanced drivers present in Linux kernel 2.6.39 are support for AMD "Cayman" high-end graphics cards and GPUs as well as drivers for Samsung notebook function keys and Realtek RTL8192CU and RTL8188CU Wi-Fi chips, according to a report on The H.