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Good publicity for desktop linux. Red Hat has taken heat over the past few years for allegedly neglecting the personal computer in favor of more profitable enterprise servers. It's a fair critique: Red Hat is an enterprise software company, a decision it made years ago, and to good effect. But anyone thinking that Red Hat has somehow forgotten consumer markets in its rush to win the enterprise need only try the final release of Fedora 11, its community-focused operating system for desktops and laptops. I've been evaluating Fedora 11 for the past week and find it polished and professional while meeting or beating Windows in key performance areas.

In this new weekly column, longtime Linux guru Matt Frye gives readers the full monty, the real trials and triumphs of a system administrator. This week: The care and feeding of software developers.

Novell is considering making a one-click "open-source app store" for its upcoming Moblin-based OS for netbooks. The scheme is intended as a selling point for average users largely unfamiliar with free software alternatives outside a Microsoft platform. According to PC Pro, Novell believes baking an open-source software repository into the SUSE edition of Moblin will help sway more netbook users to uncheck the Windows option when buying their small, cheap computer.

Do you remember Cisco Developer Contest started on October 14, 2009? (you mean 2008 right? - Scott) During this period, nearly 900 registrants from 75 countries have take part to the challange, but only 10 finalist teams are enjoying with the second (last) phase.

Is Apple finally feeling enough pressure to do some guerilla marketing?

The free Android phone was a splash at the 2009 Google I/O Conference, but the company’s introduction of six novel technologies was something more like a tidal wave. Here’s Linux Magazine’s report. The future starts now.

Although it wasn't explicitly planned this way, a whole lot of the changes made in the new kernel version have an impact on file systems and data storage. There are, however, also plenty of changes elsewhere, for example faster booting, more efficient compression algorithms and hundreds of new and improved drivers.

I used to want something like a Toshiba Libretto because it was close to the perfect size. But it had three drawbacks: too expensive, an uncomfortable keyboard, and no integrated mobile phone. Now in this excellent new netbook era, I think my dream machine is finally at hand.

This new weekly column, entitled “Open Sorcerers”, provides guidance and tips to help you land a job and build a career in open source.

There is an interesting disinformation campaign being waged against ODF. You won't see this FUD splattered across the front pages of blogs or press releases. It is the kind of stuff that is spread by email and whispers, and you or I rarely will see it. But occasionally some of this does cross my desk, and I'd like to share with you some recent examples.

A zero-day hacker today has the death of one man and one hundred thousand websites on his or her conscience.

Many open source projects start with a single developer trying to scratch an itch by making a new tool for their own use. But what if the need to be addressed is bigger, and affects more people? How can the creation of open source software involve a whole community?

What is the most frequently used piece of software on your computer? Here’s one program that holds one of the highest place in my list of most frequently used programs. I am talking about… bash. In case you don’t know, this is the program behind large portion of the Linux command line. It is the program that actually makes majority of work turning Linux command line into such a magnificent tool it is.

cheap Java hosting I've been hoping for a cheap Java hosting solution for years, as I feel Java programming is the most joyous experience. Especially thanks to the terrific API documentation. Today it was in the news google has added Java as a programming environment for it's app engine online application platform. And it is free, free within limits but it doesn't seem to me I'm going to get past their limits quickly as resources you can freely use are enough for 6 million monthly visits. If I get that kind of attention I will gladly pay the 10 cent a Gig transfer rate.

When someone want to switch from Windows to Linux, he or she has a tendency to only think about the advantages of Linux and not think about the disadvantages. Most people have very good reasons to switch from Windows to Linux, but before actually switching it is important to review the disadvantages of Linux as well as the advantages.

[I am going to let you all have at this one, why spoil all the fun. - Scott]

Is Android an iPhone killer or is it just another failed attempt at taking Linux mainstream on a mobile phone?

Firefox 3.5 was originally intended to be Firefox 3.1; a fairly minor update with small fixes and improvements. But it took on a life of its own, and major work was accomplished in a short time. Sean Michael Kerner investigates how these happy accomplishments came about.

The shift among local organizations toward open source software (OSS) is driving more IT professionals to undergo additional training to equip themselves with the right skills. For example, Yuma Tejima, telecom manager for Asia at Genesys Conferencing, was keen on the Certificate of Performance in Enterprise Linux Administration (Copela) because his employer was preparing to move from SCO to the Red Hat Linux platform.

Note that the quoted story wasn't referring to netbooks running Linux. It was referring to all Intel Atom powered netbooks. I am assured over and over again by tech pundits like Mr. Weinberg that nowadays almost all those netbooks run Windows, not Linux. Did it ever occur to people that Windows might actually be the cause of the disappointment customers face and the high returns?

To Jim Zemlin you need no longer care about your operating system. You don’t buy an operating system. You buy a gadget that runs a program. The gadget and its software are one unit. I call this Invisible Linux.