$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux, Feb 06, 2006

Mike Evans from Red Hat discusses his company's involvement in the One Laptop per Child project, which aims to develop and distribute a US$100 PC to millions around the world.

Linux, the open-source software, seems to have nothing to do with South Korea’s disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk, at least at a glance.

A report warns of security vulnerabilities, raising the question of whether the open-source model can provide bulletproof software

Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation wants radical rule changes for open-source code. Others disagree. Can diplomacy save the day?

Provisions against digital rights management in a draft update to the General Public License could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said this week in e-mails reflecting the Linux leader's pragmatic philosophy.

I met the most amazing San Francisco Muni Bus driver the other day. Let's call him Ralph Kramden. (Not his real name). I took the bus to work. Ralph was the driver. He and I chatted. Ralph wants to partition his Windows XP hard drive, but XP won't let him. I suggested Linux. Did Ralph freak out? Did he veer the bus into on-coming traffic? No, Ralph never flinched. He wants to give it a try.

Robosapien creator Mark Tilden confirms that Wowwee expects to ship a Linux-based version of its popular toy robot. The former robotic physicist for NASA's JPL facility promises the "RSMedia Bot" will be "completely user reconfigurable at several levels, and emminently hackable," according to a wit-filled, fun interview at You-Review.

The Free Standards Group, the non-profit group behind the Linux Standard Base, has announced that Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock will be its new chief technology officer and will chair the LSB workgroup.

I pestered some of my friends in the graphics business to see why Linux users would prefer Photoshop over GIMP.

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