Google? Linux? Goobuntu? Balderdash!, Feb 01, 2006

It would be nice if Google spent some serious time and money on developing and promoting desktop Linux. It really would. But, based on this story, I'm still not hoping to see it anytime soon.

Ken Starks is a man with a mission: He wants to see Linux succeed on the desktop. To that end, Starks has been beating the drum for Linux on his Lobby4Linux Web site the past year or so. More recently, he has launched something called The Austin Project, which has since been renamed to Linux4Austin. The project aims to bring desktop Linux to the attention of the masses with a radio ad campaign.

Nokia said on Tuesday it will open the source code for Python for S60 phones.

While Firefox and Thunderbird are the poster children of open-source Internet application success, the program suite they sprang from, Mozilla, was reborn Jan. 30 under a new name: SeaMonkey.

The European Union's antitrust chief says Microsoft cannot charge licensing fees for software blueprints that it is offering to share with competitors unless it can prove the computer code is innovative.

Following the departure of Peter Quinn, Massachusetts has turned to a technology strategist to drive its move to OpenDocument

KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release of the 3.5 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution

Fedora Core, a popular flavor of Linux being developed by the open-source community, is hardly hefty by today’s operating system standards. But to fit the tight specs for the $100 laptop being designed by MIT’s One-Lap-Per-Child (OLPC) group, Fedora will need to go on a crash diet, concedes its overseer, Red Hat Inc.

Novell Inc has announced that it is bundling training and advanced support free of charge with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product, undercutting rival Red Hat Inc, and introducing a new priority support version targeted at small-to-medium enterprises.

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