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This is a follow up article to the article I wrote entitled, “10 Reasons Why Not to Install Linux“. Now that we know some reasons why one wouldn’t want to install Linux, we’re going to go over some of the reasons why one would want to install Linux.

An Electronic Arts representative just finished talking at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland...

Who can participate? Everyone with a passion for Linux, and with some writing skills. If you're good enough to compose a short e-mail to your friend, then you're ready for the contest.

The Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-Q) has started a couple of days ago and in the "GNOME Plans Review" review session which took place yesterday, it was discussed which GNOME version will be used by Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, if Clutter is to be included by default and more.

Ikey Doherty proudly announced a couple of hours ago, May 9th, the immediate availability for download of the first and stable version of the SolusOS operating system.

A full review of Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin).

With Unity, Cinnamon, and Gnome 3 getting all the buzz, it's easy to overlook other interesting projects that attempt to rethink the traditional desktop metaphor.

somewhere out there, there are computers that are not connected to the internet for some reason that we will not analyse in this article. What would be the ideal GNU/Linux distribution for such systems? Are there any linux distributions that can cover almost every need of an off-line user? Yes there are!

Precise Pangolin is a big step up in many regards. The new Ubuntu OS is friendlier with legacy hardware. It's peppier and more responsive. I find it is far less sluggish on my older gear. It flies on my newest hardware. However, while its Unity interface has been improved somewhat, it's still too limited and too confining, at least for some experienced Linux users.

On May 11th, New Hampshire HB418, mandating that all State offices use Free and Open Source software and file formats takes effect, having been signed by the Governor on March 12th.

NoMachine gives scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center dependable access to HPC, data analysis resources

Fresh from UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit), attendee Electronic Arts have decided to finally dip it’s toes into uncharted waters. Now available in the Ubuntu Software Center are 2 title from the monolithic publisher. Ubuntu users can now get their hands on Lord Of Ultima and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances.

Ubuntu systems team has forked Gnome Control Center as Ubuntu Control Center which will be used in Ubuntu from 12.10 onwards.

The developers of PHP have released updates to thwart fresh attacks against systems that use the scripting language to dynamically generate web pages. All users are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.3 or PHP 5.3.13, as appropriate, after a serious security bug in PHP-CGI-based setups was disclosed. Developers attempted to fix this long-standing, but only recently discovered, flaw in a new version on 3 May, before deciding the fix was incomplete and releasing a new set of patches on Tuesday, 8 May 8.

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 to encrypt your data.

Hippo had a good year in 2011 and the beat continues in 2012 according to figures released by the company. It joins Nuxeo and WordPress as open source content management platforms reporting good earnings news and it shows that open source products can make money.

Here's an interesting look at the state of the Ubuntu bug count as it concerns Linux graphics driver issues...

Back in 2008 and 2009 I kept a really close eye on the top 50 open source companies and their partnering strategies. Fast forward to 2012 and whatever became of those top 50 open source companies? Some are thriving, some are dead, and some are repositioning for the cloud and barely even mention open source anymore. Here's the update.

The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.

The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook and others to argue for a legislative proposal, drafted by the FBI, that would require social-networking sites and VoIP, instant messaging and e-mail providers to alter their code to make their products wiretap-friendly.

A whopping 85 percent of Citrix Systems VARs see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack, the open source cloud computing alternative to OpenStack. Here are the details and implications.