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The Plat'Home Will Linux Contest Winners and their projects were announced this morning.

Linux is the easy Operating System choice for Cloud Computing environments and the future of Cloud Computing depends on it.

Five more things for the 2009 Linux Wishlist and one thing I'd like to remove.

This is Larry Ellison's version of "640K of RAM is all anyone will ever need." You won't believe your eyes.

Here they are from bottom to top: The top 10 Linux Distributions from a long-time Linux nerd. I've had several people ask me what I think the best, top, most user friendly, ultimate, and so on distribution is--so now I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference. Ease of installation, commercial support, community support, updates, administrative tools, stability, performance, and to a lesser extent--their ranking on DistroWatch.com.

Linux breaks out with Mono 2.0 today. You can develop and run all your .NET 2.0 applications on Linux.

Ken Hess outlines his 2009 Development Wish List for Linux.

Are you ready for virtualization? How do you know? Are you just being sold a bag of goods without having a good idea of why you need to make this move?

A New Linux Prediction Plus a Business Opportunity For You. Howdy and welcome to Crystal Ball Sunday #12: Built-In Home Entertainment and Automation . Linux is the perfect medium for set top boxes (aka Set Top Units or Personal Video Recorders (PVR)) because of its customizability, optimization features, and no cost status. Whether you know them as Set Top Boxes, Set Top Units, or PVRs; you may know these generic names better by the brand name: TiVo. These Linux-based PVRs are not TiVo but they do what TiVo does and much more. With a PVR, you can watch, record, pause, and rewind live TV, watch movies, create your own home theater system, and so on.

Linux is all that and a bag o' chips. Find out why. 5 good reasons why you should consider Linux for yourself.

Virtualization vendors use VDI internally in their networks don't they? Maybe no one bothered to ask before. Find out for yourself.

Vendor Callout: Do you use the technology that you sell? Try not to be shocked when the answer is no.

Cisco and VMware announced their new collaboration at VMWorld. Is this a new romantic encounter or were they already secret lovers?

Day four at VMWorld was short for me due to poor planning on my part--my flight out of Las Vegas at noon. I entered the show early yesterday when it was mostly just the vendors hanging around waiting for the hoard to arrive. I walked through the floor with the goal of seeing a couple of vendors I hadn't seen earlier in the show. What I overheard while walking through was a gaggle of buzzwords: Cloud, VDI, Appliances, Infrastructure, Refresh, and numerous TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms).

You know that traditional desktop computing is a dying technology but is VDI really the answer? Is it the long-term answer? The answer is no.

Q: What do you get when you put 10,000+ IT people in a racetrack with free beer? A: The most fun you can have at 100mph.

Cisco and VMware hook up in one of the oddest technical romances in recent history. What good can come of this?

MokaFive put your Desktop on a USB Flash Drive but is that portable enough? How about your Desktop on your Phone?

What's happening at the biggest virtualization event in North America this year? Will there be some earth-shattering announcements?

Where will your next Desktop Operating System be located? This article analyzes the Qumranet acquisition by Red Hat for an answer.