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Over the past few months we have concentrated on exploring Ubuntu Linux, the distribution that continues to grow in popularity, especially with the use of Linux on the desktop.

This is the fourth book by Gagné I've reviewed over the past half-dozen years. Though I've found things to carp at in each of them, each one was a first-rate book. Here's another.

IBM has unveiled an integrated data warehouse offering for Linux that combines software, server and storage technologies.

Having downloaded Firefox 2 RC3 and played around with it for a while I can say that the product feels very much like what I just had. It definitely feels faster, there are some subtle cosmetic changes and some nice new time-saving features but at first glance the latest Firefox is not so radically different to justify a new version number. It's more like a refurbished home than a new one.

Hi, its me again, remember me? I was the guy who told you we would probably release on Thursday of this week. Yeah, about that...

Open-source database leader MySQL has released a new version aimed at satisfying the needs of corporate users.

Terra Soft solutions has announced Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for both the Sony Playstation 3 and legacy PowerPC-based Macs.

FSG to Create a Central, Community-Based Destination for Software Developers Writing Portable Linux Applications

Choice: it's one of the key ideas at the heart of free software.  The right to choose how to use your software, the right to choose who you share it with.  Who could be against choice?  Certainly not theInitiative for Software Choice, except that it has a slightly different view of what choice implies: To encourage continued software innovation and promote broad choice, governments are encouraged to consider the following neutral principles: Procure software on its merits, not through categorical preferences Promote broad availability of government funded research Promote interoperability through platform-neutral standards Maintain a choice of strong intellectual property protections

The rumor that Oracle Corp is about to enter the Linux distribution business will not go away, with investment bank Jefferies and Co the latest to throw fuel on to the fire with the suggestion that Oracle could announce its strategy before the end of the month.

The rapidly-developing Kexi database application and Krita image editor tool are the key highlights of the latest version of the KOffice suite released yesterday by the KDE project team.

Sony's PlayStation 3 set to move in on personal computers with the release of the Linux operating system for the device. Linux developer Terra Soft Solutions will today announce the launch of its Yellow Dog Linux operating system for the PlayStation 3 games console.

As the battle between Microsoft and software vendors continues to rage on in the foreground, it seems like a lot of people have completely forgotten about the common user and their experience with the OS.

Commentary: The process of producing the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) may not be doomed, but, as Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers heat up the rhetoric, it does seem stalled. If the process continues in the way that it has been going, a large number of current users of the GPL may not switch to the new license. Unless the free and open source software (FOSS) communities are willing to risk the possible consequences of that result, it's time for a change of tactics.

Strong Linux smartphone sales in China helped Motorola achieve the highest overall year-on-year growth among the top five vendors in the PDA/Smartphone market, according to Gartner. In contrast, Motorola's Symbian- and Microsoft-based smartphones are "not making significant progress," Gartner reports.

Explore technical issues in video playback, and see how a blend of hardware and software achieves good performance at a reasonable cost. Learn how to show movies on a scriptable, network connected appliance. Also, Lewin Edwards reveals that MP3 does not mean MPEG-3, which alone is worth the price of admission.

What can we say? Some people need that Frontpage feel when editing a website. We know speaking such words at MadPenguin ought to get us sectioned and quartered for sure. But before you break out the big guns, just bear with us for a minute here.

Yamefa.linux.free.fr reports - "Yamefa is a new Linux distribution based on Kubuntu... Yamefa contains the Mozilla Firefox Web browser with Sage extension (improved RSS feeds reader), the Mozilla Thunderbird mail reader with Lightning extension (calendar), the Gimp image editor, the OpenOffice.org office suite, and much more..." OSDir has some great shots of this new distribution in the Yamefa 608 Screenshot Tour.

Chapter 20 from Marcel Gagné's new book Moving to Ubuntu Linux reprinted with permission of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Government Open Source…GOS? Sure, it’s another TLA, but this time it spells a big win for the Open Source movement as more state activism in Massachusetts leads the way, embracing ODF — OpenDocument Format.