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Linux.com: A celebration of Linux's 20th birthday wouldn't be complete without an appearance from Linux creator Linus Torvalds

Last month the second case against a UK-based BitTorrent site came to an end. Two administrators of FileSoup had their case dropped by the authorities and were free men once again.

This week, personal belongings that were seized during the house raids were released and returned, but what should have been a celebration turned out to be a great disappointment.

In celebration of Halloween, here is some of the coolest—and scariest—tech we've seen recently.

Have you heard of "Quit Facebook Day?" If not, you're not alone. In response to the recent Facebook privacy issues, a batch of users founded this celebration of-sorts in hopes that thousands more would join their commitment to deactivate their Facebook accounts come May 31.

Well, that's tomorrow, and it appears to be a bust.

For those of you who were with us back in 2002, you may remember a wall calendar we produced in celebration of issue 100 of Linux Journal.

It was such a fun calendar that for years to come readers would ask me when we were going to print another.

I always joked "ask me in another 100 issues".

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FSF.org: "At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, FSF kicked off a new video testimonial campaign.

See how it went, and help support the campaign by submitting a video response to these questions!"

You may have noticed the odd bit of celebration around the magic billion downloads milestone for Firefox.

Of course, as Mozillans themselves point out, that figure doesn't tell us very much; more useful, perhaps, are stats like 300 million users, but that too is only an estimate.

Electronic Arts has announced that they're now giving away the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert as a free download in celebration of the 13th anniversary of the series.