Linux Loop: "In case you forgot to put the Linux community on your list or in case you just couldn't find anything for them, you're in luck. There's a last minute gift opportunity:"

IBM Developerworks: "Arduino is an inexpensive, easy-to-use electronics platform. The entire platform, both the hardware and the software, is completely open source, and the language is loosely based on C/C++. Arduino was built for makers, tinkerers, and artists who want

Linux.com: "Google Maps gives you a quick and easy way to add maps to your Web site, but when you're using Google's API, your ability to display other data is limited. If you have your own data you want to

InfoWorld: "2008 saw Windows' market share drop to less than 90 percent. Should you switch to Mac or Linux, too?"Link fixed--ed.

Linux Journal: "Using pyuno you can script OpenOffice with Python. Pyuno allows you to create macros inside OpenOffice and it also allows you to create external Python scripts that talk to a running copy of OpenOffice."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "High-performance file systems such as Panasas PanFS, Sun QFS, Quantum StorNext, IBM GPFS and HP File Services can add plenty of value to storage implementations"