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Linux News & Commentary
Are You Intimidated By Breakfast Cereal?

September 4, 2010
An article by Graham Morrison for Tech Radar UK this past week struck a bit of a raw nerve for me. It was one of a type we see periodically in the tech press and the title pretty much tells the story: The trouble with Linux: there's too much choice. To Mr. Morrison and all the others who have written articles like this one I say: Hogwash!
Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions

August 27, 2010
Early this week Gnash 0.8.8 was released. Despite the small increment in version number, which would make this seem like a minor maintenance release, the difference between version 0.8.8 and the earlier 0.8.7 is like night and day.
Report from Debian Conference

August 6, 2010
DebConf 2010 was held in New York City. This blog covers several interesting presentations and some general observations about the Debian community.
Four short links: 28 July 2010

July 28, 2010
The end of the road for the Nexus One (LWN) -- The pessimistic among us can be forgiven for concluding that the battle for open handsets is being lost. The carriers determine which devices will be successful in the market, and they have absolutely no interest in openness. Customers are irresistibly drawn to heavily advertised, shiny devices with low...
Red Hat Overhauls the Enterprise Software Stack

June 24, 2010
Red Hat is openly badgering large, IT-driven organizations to move away from comfortable patterns and to adopt what they believe to be the best virtualization platform, the best cloud API, the best data storage mechanism, and so on.
Mandriva Saved By New Investors

June 22, 2010
After weeks of concern about the "catastrophic state of it's finances" and an indefiniete delay in the release of version 2010.1, the French website LeMagIT is reporting that Mandriva has been saved by new investors.
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