Friday round-up

It’s been a while since we posted a good round-up, and there’s so much we’ve come across lately that we really wanted to tell you about. In no particular order, here’s a list of things that have piqued our interest in the last few weeks:

• Thomas Chung’s photo essay from SCALE 6X.
• Here is another SCALE 6X trip report from Fedora Engineering Manager Tom “Spot” Callaway
• Mary Lou Jepsen’s (the former CTO of the One Laptop per Child project) keynote at the Greener Gadgets conference: How green is the XO?
• Top 10 Linux distributions for audio
• Check out Gobby on fedoraproject.org. For those not in the know, Gobby is “a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-like platforms.”
• More One Laptop in the news: A comparison of sub-$300 laptops
• Dave Eggers, winner of a 2008 TED prize, wants 1,000 people to engage with their local public schools through onceuponaschool.org. They need domain hosting, developers, and non-technical people. A perfect opportunity to combine open source’s benefits with education…
• Love. As in the love of game development. Check out the amazing graphics in this multiplayer first-person shooter game that was created entirely by one person.
• You’re going to have to pull yourself away from the screen sooner or later. When you’re looking for something to eat this weekend, may we recommend bacon cups? (Because here at Red Hat Magazine? We like bacon.)
• Neil Gaiman’s giving away books and name-checking Cory Doctorow. Trent Reznor’s up to much of the same with NIN’s new album, Ghosts. Yay for major artists getting on the sharing bandwagon.
• And speaking of Cory Doctorow, check out this list of 20 science fiction novels that will change your life. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a particular favorite and shouldn’t be missed. But what’s your favorite that didn’t make the cut? For us? Madeline L’Engle’s transformative series about the Wallace family, starting with A Wrinkle in Time.