Open*Life: 2011 in review

A second great year on opensource.com has proven even more that openness can improve just about anything. No matter what you're interested in, we've had a story for you. A few examples:

• Gaming
  • Achievement unlocked: Four consoles for homebrew gamers
  • Open source games: It's a team effort
  • Games for life: Girl Scouts, games, and the open source way
• Technology
  • From the TouchPad's ashes rises the phoenix of open source
• Space exploration
  
  • NASA concludes first Open Source Summit, aims to make openness the default
  • The future of space exploration is in the public's hands. What can collaboration do?
• Software
  • How to become an amazing contributor to an open source project
  • How to browse anonymously with Tor
• Politics
  • Raleigh, NC, the world's first open source city
  • Is "Occupy Wall Street" an open source protest?
• Entertainment
  • TRON: An open source legacy
  • Making music with open source software
  • OK Go's Damian Kulash on music, collaboration, and net neutrality

Below are our most popular posts for the year, but you may have had other favorites. Let us know in the comments what you most enjoyed hearing about the openness of in 2011 and what you're looking forward to in 2012.

The Life channel's 2011 top 10

1. The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music
2. Steam for Linux confirmed (April Fool's Day post)
3. Microsoft cuts Asterisk ties: What are the open source Skype alternatives?
4. An anthropologist's view of an open source community
5. Kdenlive part 1: An introduction to Kdenlive
6. #noemail: Are technology's early adopters abandoning their email?
7. How we almost lost Doom 3 and id for good
8. FabFi: An open source wireless network built with trash
9. A Boxee Box review: Recent updates and openness questions
10. Free as in sake: The story of Koji