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As Apple, Microsoft, and other big companies create sets of products designed to work with each other, Linux could come up with something far, far better.

I'm supposed to have a meeting with Dell next week, during which they'll talk about their consumer-focused plans for the near future and at the same time show me some hot new product that I'll be bound not to talk about for a specified period of time. Great. I told the PR guy, "What I really want to know about is the soon-to-be-released Dell E," meaning Dell's answer to the Asus Eee (note the similar names) and HP Mini-Note.

Laurie Langham at Freesoftware Magazine catalogues his struggle to get his new hard drive bundled with proprietary software to work with GNU/Linux. It is hear rending stuff - but he triumphs in the end. A cautionary tale for anyone thinking of buying drives from Microsoft hell. You can read the full story at FSM

The article reviews 10 GTK applications which don't come with the GNOME desktop environment: GIMP, Banshee, Inkscape, Firefox, Deluge, XChat, OpenOffice, VLC, LinuxDC++ and Geany.

Part four of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

The fight against the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard is continuing in many countries. In the UK the UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) unsuccessfully, sought a judicial review of the British Standards Institute's decision to vote yes. UKUUG are now seeking to appeal against that rejection of a review and you can help them. Read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine.

It's been a while since last looking at a Solaris Express Community Edition release (SXCE Build 75 to be exact) and since then Solaris Express Developer 1/08 and OpenSolaris 2008.05 have been released, which are both based off the same SXCE "Nevada" code-base. With Solaris Express Community Edition Build 91 having been released this past week, we took this opportunity to see what new work is going on within this Solaris community.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from July 23rd - July 25th, 2008.

Coming back to the hype, Ubuntu lives up to it only partially (as do Ubuntu's siblings Kubuntu and Xubuntu - I won't be mentioning those explicitly anymore, just fill them in as you please). Whenever it's stated/claimed/implied that Ubuntu is finally the one Linux to take the world, take over the desktop (entice Windows users to take the plunge), where other Linux distributions have failed, I can only say: ehmm, no, not as far as I can tell.

Part three of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Mandriva Linux 2009, the next version of the popular desktop Linux operating system, will be released in October this year. The first alpha release is due in less than a week's time on June 25. Some of the key issues targeted for the Mandriva Linux 2009 release include improved boot times, automatic removal of 'orphaned' packages and the integration of PackageKit and PolicyKit.

Matt Asay wants Red Hat to make its Spacewalk project a true community. (Illustration by Rob Dunlavey for an Oregon State story on family businesses.) That’s a noble goal. But what I’ve observed over the last few years is there is a big difference between the noble goals of community and what many businesses want.

continue to explore the legal implications of building the GNU desktop using Mono. As readers may be aware, this Web site, among several others, has been a critic of Novell's Mono for quite some time. We are now aware, based on the assessment of the SFLC, that Novell's Moonlight is a legal risk (or uncertainty at best). Fedora forbade it. The key worry though is that strategic direction gets changed to favour the Microsoft API in several places, which is akin to adopting or supporting Microsoft codecs. It gives a sworn enemy of libre software powers that can essentially eliminate the freedom of the desktop -- for good.

The Open Document Format (ODF) has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival Open Office XML (OOXML) standard, which is native to its Office 2007 suite, Microsoft's national technology officer said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.

I'm very excited to announce that the first Amarok->Cloud transfer has taken place. Just moments ago, for the first time ever (as far as I'm aware), a track was sent up into the Cloud from a desktop media player, escaping the local collection prison. This track shed the chains of limited accessibility, and is no longer doomed to obscurity, lost in an sql database in my home directory.

OpenClovis today announces industry first Test automation product for COTS-based distributed computing platform. OpenClovis Test Automation Environment (TAE) demonstrates OpenClovis' continuing commitment to help accelerate migration to COTS-based computing platform for network infrastructure devices.

Discover how the updated Pattern Modeling and Analysis Tool for Java Garbage Collector parses GC trace, analyzes Java heap usage, and recommends configurations based on pattern modeling of Java heap usage.

I started this blog post when I was on paternity leave with my first child, thinking I'd get it finished over a few days in my spare time. Fool. As any of you with children know, there is no spare time with a newborn. So, here I am now, having lived with - and used when I can - an Ubuntu Linux laptop for the last couple of months. I've been trying it out alongside my usual laptop (Sony Vaio running Windows XP), my new MacBook Pro, and a Vista notebook that we also have in the house.

CodeWeavers, developer of software products that allow Mac and Linux users to run popular Windows software, has released CrossOver Mac 7.0 and CrossOver Linux 7.0. Both version of CrossOver 7.0 include support for Microsoft Office 2007, including Outlook 2007, newer versions of Quicken, and the Adobe CS and CS2 line of products, in particular Photoshop.

An amazing self-replicating 3D printer that is being made available under a GNU General Public Licence. If you have a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend... How cool is that?