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Where do I begin? This idea entered my head the same day that Canonical announced Ubuntu For Android. That same day, information leaked about a desktop-capable Android, most likely Android 5.0 Jelly Bean. The appeal of tethering Ubuntu to a monitor, keyboard and mouse–from an Android phone– is tremendous. The appeal of attaching an Android phone to a monitor and gaining desktop functionality while only having to use one OS is much greater, I’m afraid…

In a community survey of about 5,000 participants, Unity came out as the most hated desktop environment followed by Gnome Shell. Gnome 2.x is still favorite of most of the Linux users.

The Dutch Piracy organization "Brein" has decided to sue ISP's UPC, KPN, T-Mobile and Tele2 after their recent victory in court. I really don't understand why. First of all, blocking a handful of IP addresses hasn't had any effect at all. But most of all, if you really want to fight piracy you got to have support from the public. And that support is crumbling with each and every effort to enforce compliance to that 10 minutes of pesky messages you get when you insert a "legal" DVD.

The Wine development release 1.4-rc5 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Some more information regarding Ubuntu for Android was revealed today in an interview with one of the Canonical engineers. Ubuntu for Android will be offered pre-installed by manufacturers and won't be available to download for regular users for now.

Originated in France and forked from Mandriva, The Mageia is now independent and community based project for developing a Linux based Operating System. Anne Nicolas said the released of first beta version of Mageia 2. It available on both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. And comes with many desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Wmaker, IceWM.

Championship Manager is one of my favourite games and now the 01/02 edition is free to download this guide shows how to install the game and set it up using WINE and how to get past the requirement for a CD on a netbook without drive

Germans won't get the message after iOS court defeat Apple has switched off push notifications in Germany, responding to Motorola Mobility's successful patent lawsuit, so iCloud users in Germany will have to learn to pull together.…

Intel announced a few minutes ago, February 24th, that version 2.18.0 of the xf86-video-intel graphics driver for Linux is available for download.

TheeMahn proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the Ultimate Edition 3.0.1 operating system.

Just days after Adobe announced their plans to abandon Flash Player support on Linux, the open-source Gnash Flash Player is out with a new release...

The Wine development release 1.4-rc5 is now available.

As Bruce Schneier spent the past decade watching the growing rash of phishers, malware attacks, and identity theft, a new Internet threat has emerged that poses even greater risks, the security expert said. Unlike the security risks posed by criminals, the threat from government regulation and data hoarders such as Apple and Google are more insidious because they threaten to alter the fabric of the Internet itself. They're also different from traditional Internet threats because the perpetrators are shielded in a cloak of legitimacy. As a result, many people don't recognize that their personal information or fortunes are more susceptible to these new forces than they ever were to the Russian Business Network or other Internet gangsters.

I found this over at TechDirt, where they gave this comic a great new title, and provided a couple more worthwhile links. And hey -- it's The Oatmeal, good for an end of the week chuckle.

This guy has the Ubuntu logo tattooed to his arm ... many times. He makes Maddog's Tux (next one pictured) look well, not mad at all.

The GNOME Project announced a few minutes ago, February 24th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted improvements and features.

This release brings big changes to Linux Mint so be ready for something different. The DVD version offers users the ability to choose between the new Gnome 3 interface with the Mint Gnome shell extensions, Gnome classic, or the new MATE desktop.

OS X inspired distro plagued by installation and boot time issues, stable release pulled

This week, we look at choosing between apps and HTML5, private cloud haters and the growing open academic journal movement (think open source journals).

We’ve now gone through all the steps of self-publishing a book, so this week is summing up time: I’ll try and pull together the most important things I learned along the way, and especially those that I wished I’d known before I started.