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Sony's Shocking 'Other OS' Win and Suspect Distro Popularity Trends September 02, 2010 
Despite the best hopes of many of us in the community, the man suing Sony over the removal of the "other OS" feature from its PS3 has apparently lost his case. The bad news is that the man won't get the money he had requested to compensate for an upgrade to his newly crippled PS3; the good news is that he reportedly wasn't forced to pay Sony's legal bill to boot.
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The Kernel Bug, the Missing Patch and the 6-Years-Later Fix August 30, 2010 
So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that -- it turns out -- had been around since 2004. A fix was actually supplied back then by SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli, but it never got incorporated into the Linux kernel.
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Is Oracle Becoming the New Microsoft? August 23, 2010 
"Oracles are dumb," the great John Milton once wrote, and though it may not be the meaning he intended, that's a fair description of the prevailing sentiment in the Linux blogosphere these days. It's a single Oracle being referred to today, of course -- Oracle Corporation, that is, owner of Sun, jealous protector of Java and Solaris, and just possibly the most widely despised company in the FOSS arena of late.
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Where Would You Be Without Facebook? August 21, 2010 
Facebook already knows what you like, who your friends are, what you're thinking right now, so what the hell does it matter that it knows where you are too, right? The king of social networks has finally revealed its much-anticipated location-awareness features. Facebook Places will let users with Facebook apps on their mobile devices "check in" at various locations to let their friends know they've arrived.
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Canonical Teaches Ubuntu to Phone Home Every Day August 19, 2010 
Well it's been an eventful few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, what with all the various scandals that have erupted recently over Digg and Ubuntu's off-and-on romance with Dell, to name just two. Then there was Debian's birthday on Monday! Happy 17th, Debian! By far the hottest topic in recent days, however, was news that Canonical has begun tracking Ubuntu installations.
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New Illumos Project to Reopen OpenSolaris August 04, 2010 
A new group announced Tuesday aims to create a community-built and -maintained version of Oracle's OpenSolaris operating system in which all portions of the code are open and fully available for use by developers. Called "Illumos," the new project will replace the closed portions of Oracle's OpenSolaris code with open versions, making it possible for developers to create their own solutions based on the software.
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Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth July 19, 2010 
Paris-based Mandriva had been hovering on the brink of bankruptcy for some time. This apparent return to health was enabled only by a combination of drastic restructuring and cost-cutting at Mandriva (read: staff cuts), as well as an "ambitious industrial plan with the aim of relaunching the company."
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On GoogleCL, a 'Virtual RMS' and Highly Unusual Linux Distros July 08, 2010 
Well, the Dog Days of summer seem to be upon us in earnest up here in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's no wonder things have been a little quieter than usual in the Linux blogosphere. Discussion of the Bilski affair, for one, seems to be winding down, and many bloggers -- perhaps in need of a little comic relief -- have begun turning their attention to lighter topics.
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Who Should - or Shouldn't - Use Linux? July 01, 2010 
Independence Day may come only once a year here in the land of stars and stripes, but the topic of independence is one that's never far from Linux bloggers' minds. Freedom, in other words, and all the myriad benefits that go along with it. It's an oft-cited reason for using our favorite operating system, and it's also a topic that got examined up close recently by the inquiring minds over at TuxRadar.
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Dell's 'Love Letter' to Linux: Now You See It, Now You Don't? June 28, 2010 
Well, it's been an emotional rollercoaster ride here in the Linux blogosphere in recent days, thanks to Dell's proclamation -- and then apparent retraction -- of its love for Linux. "Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows" read item No. 6 on Dell's "Top 10 list of things you should know about Ubuntu" as recently the middle of this month.
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When GNOME Met KDE: Q and A With GNOME Foundation Director Stormy Peters June 25, 2010 
The GNOME Project is widely recognized in the world of Linux as a leading developer community of a free and easy-to-use desktop environment. GNOME is part of the GNU/Linux Project. The label "GNU" is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix, according to GNU.org. Based in Cambridge, Mass., the GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the goals of the GNOME project.
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Nokia Snubs Symbian for MeeGo in Future N-Series Phones June 24, 2010 
Nokia will use the Linux MeeGo operating system in its flagship N-series platform in a bid to remain competitive against the iPhone and Android smartphones. However, the company will continue to use its Symbian operating system for its lower-end smartphones. The move might be seen as a bid to restore Nokia's shaky fortunes in the high-end smartphone market.
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Ubuntu: Harder to Use, or Just Harder to Spell? June 24, 2010 
At first glance, it's easy to be taken in by Jeff Hoogland's recent post entitled "Why Ubuntu Is Harder Than Windows." "I use Ubuntu on all my personal computers and I even recommend it to friends," Hoogland began. "I am starting to think maybe I shouldn't though, because it is obvious: Ubuntu is harder to use than Windows." It doesn't take long, however, for the sarcasm to shine through.
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Tech Heavies Join Forces for Better Gadgetry Through Linux June 03, 2010 
A group of high-tech firms, led by ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, have formed Linaro, a nonprofit organization to promote the use of Linux software on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. It will develop tools, applications, kernel, graphics and boot codes to help Linux-based distributions work effectively with high-performance, low-power processors.
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Ubuntu Learns New Tricks, Forgets Some Old Ones With Lucid Lynx Upgrade May 14, 2010
Lucid Lynx, Canonical's latest desktop release of Ubuntu, sports a new look and feel designed to attract new users, both in business and at home. No doubt the launch of a music store component for the Ubuntu One cloud service available through the Ubuntu OS will give consumers a reason to consider one of the most popular Linux desktops.
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Peppermint OS Puts Its Pedal to the Metal May 11, 2010 
Linux aficionados gained a new option Monday, thanks to the release of Peppermint OS.
Checking in at under 512 MB, Peppermint is a Linux-based operating system that's designed to be cloud/Web-centric, ready to use and "insanely fast," its makers said. As a fork of Lubuntu, the system is based on -- and compatible with -- Ubuntu 10.04 and its repositories.
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