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Open Symbian: New World Order or Big Yawn? February 08, 2010 
It's not every day that a major operating system gets opened up, never mind one that leads the global market in its category. So, when the news came out last week that that's just what the Symbian Foundation had done -- and four months ahead of schedule, no less! -- it was hard not to get excited.
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Motherboard Madness and Mayhem February 04, 2010 
Misery loves company, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Linux blogs. Case in point: Linux Planet's Carla Schroder recently told a woeful tale about her attempt to upgrade the CPU on her ECS motherboard, and it has inspired a vast outpouring of sympathy from geeks far and wide.
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Will FOSS Jump Into the iPad Fray? February 02, 2010 
While the Macintosh, Windows and Linux platforms all compete to varying degrees on PCs, netbooks and smartphones, the iPad currently stands more or less alone in the tablet arena. It's clearly just a matter of time before competitors begin arriving; will an open source device be among them?
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Life After Microsoft: IT Utopia or 'Apocalyptic Tailspin'? February 01, 2010 
Well, the snow continues to fall here in the Linux blogosphere, and Linux Girl is beginning to wonder if it will ever end. Bread and milk are still in short supply at the local FOSS-y-Mart; children are getting cabin fever; and the snow drifts are getting taller than many netizens.
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Red Hat's Open Source School of Thought January 29, 2010 
What is Red Hat up to with its launch this week of the opensource.com Web page? This replaces the "Truth Happens" page which ran articles and videos on open source, intellectual property, transparency and other issues. "Opensource.com is now the place to go to find out about how open source principles are re-shaping business, law, art and, of course, technology," wrote Colin Dodd.
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What Does It Take to Be a Linux Guru? January 28, 2010 
It's a well-known fact that humans love lists, and the media are generally all too happy to oblige. Recently, however, mixed in among the many "Top 10" lists and "10 Ways to ..." articles out there was one that seemed worthy of attention. "10 Characteristics of a Linux Guru?" was the title of the post, which came from DaniWeb's Ken Hess.
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Open-PC: A Piece of Junk, or Got It Where It Counts? January 25, 2010 
It's a rare day indeed that doesn't see some new computer technology or other roll out of the starting gates, but when that technology is called the "Open-PC," Linux Girl can't help but sit up and pay attention. Sure enough, the Open-PC is billed as the first PC for everyday use "built by the Linux community for the Linux community," and it uses only free software.
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FOSS Feats and Follies: Q&A With Red Hat Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields January 22, 2010 
Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Project developers will soon introduce core technological improvements to provide better desktop environments and video driver support in the upcoming release of both the commercial and the free open source operating systems later this year.
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No Country for Linux Newbies? January 21, 2010 
To know Linux is to love Linux, aficionados would surely agree, but does one *have* to know Linux just to be able to use it at all? That question has made quite a splash in the blogosphere. "Lately, I've been noticing stories about how to use Linux you need to know half-a-hundred Linux shell commands and the like, began Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, author of the original post.
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Dark Clouds - and a Silver Lining - on the Hiring Front January 18, 2010 
Talk to anyone about jobs during a recession, and it isn't likely to be a cheerful discussion. Talk to geeks about IT jobs, and you'll get a small taste of a recent conversation going on across the Linux blogs. A pretty picture it isn't, that's for sure -- at least not across the board.
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On Pi, Paper Penguins and FOSS' Regal Potential January 14, 2010 
It's been a relatively quiet few days on the Linux blogs, and it seems safe to assume that at least part of that lull is due to the mind-numbing cold affecting many of us here in the Northern Hemisphere. The jollidays are at least behind us once more, but now there's the prospect of day after day of this dark, unrelenting chill.
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Install Linux, Void Your Netbook's Warranty? January 11, 2010 
Best Buy has never been a favorite company among Linux fans, and that feeling was not improved by news of one blogger's experience. "My four month-old netbook's touchpad and power adapter all stopped working," began the anonymous reader. "I took the machine into Best Buy for service ... [and] the manager of the Geek Squad informed me that installing Ubuntu Linux on my machine voided my warranty."
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Another Year, Another Microsoft Job Targeting FOSS January 07, 2010 
Well, the new year may be officially under way, but that hasn't stopped Linux bloggers from continuing their reflections on all that transpired over the past decade. At TuxRadar, for example, Graham Morrison looked back over the past 10 or so years and identified "15 game-changing Linux moments of the decade."
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More Than 10 Ways to Get FOSS Past the Boss January 04, 2010
Jan. 4 is here at last, and not a moment too soon! Good riddance to all the eggnog, the mingling and the jolliness. It's time to settle back down to work once again, and for that, what better companion than FOSS? There's certainly no better way to get things done -- the only catch, of course, is that not everyone realizes that.
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Auld Lang Syne on the Linux Blogs December 28, 2009 
With just a few days left to 2009, the mood on the Linux blogs has been uncharacteristically quiet and contemplative. Mostly gone are the fire and vitriol so often seen in the community's many contentious debates, replaced instead by discussions of a kinder, gentler nature.
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A Linuxy Christmas Carol: Visions of FOSS Past, Present and Future December 21, 2009 
As one year winds down and the dawn of the next looms large, it's only natural to ponder what has come and what may be in the coming days. Such, indeed, was essentially the premise behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and it also seemed to be the case with Linux bloggers of late, as evidenced by a number of conversations looking back at 2009 and venturing predictions for 2010.
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