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With the introduction of Mono a while back, A large number of Windows only applications are being ported to Linux. The problem with C# at the moment in regards to GUI tool kits are the number of GUI tool kit bindings available and the cross platform ability.

IDC is predicting the Windows Phone OS will have 20 percent marketshare by 2015, but I'm not sure it can gain anywhere near that traction without a lot of luck and some killer phones from its manufacturing partners.

A few minutes ago, the second and last Beta version, as well as the last development release, of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system was made available for testing by the Ubuntu developers. As usual, we've grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 11.10 development.

The Free Software movement has truly become a global phenomenon. Today, I found a piece of legislation that is currently before the Philippines’ House of Representatives that reads like it was written by Doctor Richard Stallman himself! There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the world has really changed, and it will continue to do so. Ubuntu is evolving as well: I will discuss Ubuntu’s possible move to a rapid release cycle, similar to the one that Firefox recently shifted to. The third story in this week’s round up discusses how the Acer Aspire One has grown into an elder statesman of the GNU/Linux netbook movement.

Pardus team makes new releases even more often than Canonical with its Ubuntu. We have seen version 2011 released in spring, than 2011.1 released in summer time. Just 2 months passed away and here it goes! Please meet: Pardus 2011.2.

The OpenStack Project is moving a bit closer to its proprietary competition with the Diablo release, out today. In addition to improving the three core projects, OpenStack is now adding a Web-based dashboard, unified authentication and an API for configuring virtual networks. With Diablo, OpenStack is poised to manage global clouds.

The Linux kernel is developed and released at a rapid pace that seems to almost never slow down....almost

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Tux Paint Summer Contest. We thank all the participants for thier entries. We must admit, judging was extremely difficult so we decided to add an additional 10 winners who will each get a Tux Paint t-shirt.

ARM is often toted as one of Linux's largest successes. Thanks to Google's Android platform it is true that a penguin powers at least half of the world's mobile devices today.

Is this a bit of a hollow victory though?

You heard the news, we’re sure, that Ballmer & Company unveiled a preview of Windows 8 this week. We FOSS types couldn’t help but notice that the Microsofties seem to be copying more than a few Linux ideas with their new release, so we sent our crackpot investigative reporter Ms. Dos (well, she’s a crackpot, we know that much for sure) to nose around Redmond to see if she could find any unknown ways that the upcoming Windows operating system mimics the penguin.

This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely over SSH, and local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). I will use Debian Squeeze for both the local and the remote server.

Wunderlist has finally descended on the Linux platform. And though it adorns a minimal looking frame, with its sorting, listing, and managing features, it will handle all your to-do things.

The Pardus development team has released version 2011.2 of its Pardus Linux distro.

Control4 announced a seven-inch tablet, meant for portable control of its Linux-based Control4 home automation, surveillance, and music-server system. In addition to the Control4 7" Portable Touch Screen, the company also announced a "Control4 MyHome -- Android" app.

In Pando's ranking of nations in general, South Korea not surprisingly prevails with an average download speed of 2,202KBps. But Romania "unexpectedly" came in second at 1,909KBps, followed by Bulgaria at 1,611KBps. "In fact, eastern European nations dominated the top of the list with Lithuania in fourth at 1,462KBps, Latvia in fifth at 1,377KBps and Ukraine in eighth at 1,190KBps," Pando observes. These countries are leaving the United States and the Western European nations in the dust when it comes to average high speed Internet rates...

After a terrific response to the opening of early bird registrations just one week ago, the linux.conf.au 2012 organising team are excited to announce open source law luminary Karen Sandler as the first keynote for the January conference.

Open source software company Inverse released the version 3.0 of PacketFence - a fully-featured network access control (NAC) solution running on Linux.

Gumstix announced a entry-level version of its Linux-ready Overo computer-on-module (COM) that sells for as little as $99 in quantity. The & Sand& includes a 600MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3503 processor, 256MB of RAM, and the same 2.3 x 0.2 inch format as the other Overos, but drops onboard flash storage....

The Desura Game Client, which is a similar service to Valve's Steam game distribution platform for e-delivery, is now in beta on Linux.

There are a few small areas polish-wise where this lags behind version 11 "Katya" GNOME, but otherwise, I really like how it combines trademark Linux Mint ease of use with super speed!