Opinion

Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela were treated as second-line countries during the BRM, and together with Venezuela, the four were now treated with irrelevance again.

Linux is its own worst enemy because it keeps focusing on the wrong way to appeal to its would-be users.

Would you be willing to use proprietary software on a Linux PC, or must software be open source for you to be willing to install it?

The Linux Operating System has recently been gaining ground even for those who aren't exactly, how should we say it...tech saavy. One of the things that Linux lacks and can prevent people from moving over entirely, including myself are computer games.

Novell owns Unix's IP (intellectual property). SCO sold Unix's IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds like trouble, doesn't it?

Why am I asking if Gnome and Ubuntu are ruining the Linux Desktop? Because they are. There are two trends that we are seeing in both Ubuntu and Gnome development, that we also see in other areas.

As MySQL's capabilities have grown over the years, many developers have pushed for a leaner, less feature-heavy version, which the Drizzle project will deliver

At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth called on open source developers to make a concerted effort not just to catch Apple but to overtake the company in the quality of the desktop experience they deliver users.

Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux backer Mark Shuttleworth will step into the spotlight July 22, when he keynotes OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portland, Oregon. It will be a critical moment for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu movement

Wine 1.1 has been released