Linus Torvalds is the most influential Open Source Blogger. The ranking system places Tim O’ Reilly, Linus Torvalds, Google’s Chris Messina, Jonathan Schwartz and Gnome and Mono founder Miguel de Icaza in order of their popularity.

FOSS fanatics are messing up with departmental store computers by quietly installing Linux on them. According to them, this is an opportunity for them to let people know about other Operating Systems than Windows..

Magnatune is an awesome service and is beneficial for both the musician and the listener. The site provides a 50% revenue share to the musicians and gives DRM free music.

Facebook has beaten Google at pageviews in some earlier instances. It beat Google last Christmas and New Years eve but this time, the days on which Facebook pageviews crossed Google pageviews are the unexpected weekdays!

Isn’t the CLI( Command Line Interface) what we left behind years ago? Isn’t that what we have been trying to beautify by writing programs to add a front-end to our boring illegible command line applications?

OpenGL 4.0 introduces a better support for GPU and an advanced tessalation, which breaks a model into smaller patches or surfaces for better handling and rendering. The OpenGL standard, when adapted to the version 4.0, is presumed to match the qualities of that of DirectX 11.

Mozilla has announced a mobile add-on challenge running for a month. Your challenge is to develop an add-on by Monday, the 12th of April.

Basically, CodePlex is being restructured to make it look better and get some more credibility into it. CodePlex was formed to make proprietary software developers get more involved in Open-Source software development and to reflect Microsoft’s support for Open Source.

On March 10th 2010, Mozilla announced the launch of Rock Your Firefox. Rock Your Firefox is a place where Firefox users can customize their web experience and learn about cool new add-ons.

Google is probably about to start a new feature of TV search which will allow viewers to search for Youtube videos and movies over the Internet right through their TV sets. The new service is being tested on Dish Network through its satellite TV connection.

Polarbit is a company with the most popular android games like ToonWarz, Raging Thunder, Wave Blazer, Armageddon Squadron and Iron Sight, under its banner. The company has claimed that the games from Polarbot have been downloaded over a million times now only on the Android platform.

The Linux Kernel version 2.6.34 RC1 has been released. This new kernel has got a new filesystem named Logfs. Logfs is a scalable filesystem for flash drives.

Nokia’s Nokia’s Valtteri Halla has recently announced that Nokia and Intel will launch the MeeGo code repository sometime in this month. The new and improved OS devised by Nokia and Intel, combines the best features of Maemo and Moblin.

MontaVista aims to boot the Linux Kernel on embedded devices in less than one second. It already has another project underway to use Linux in RTOS.

Opera features many in-built capabilities like managing chat sessions on IRC, reading RSS feeds and working with browsing sessions apart from a common tabbed interface and a state of the art UI.