Google Summer of Code 2006 a Success, Sep 30, 2006

The projects are in and the mentors have filed their evaluations. In the final tally, it looks like Google's Summer of Code 2006 was a success.

Leaving Windows takes more than courage. While Microsoft's operating system can be frustrating at times, staying in the Windows comfort zone is probably the only sensible option for most of us.

Once the operating system booted, I was pleasantly surprised to see that everything was working. It’s always good when your hardware is detected and working properly, something I found lacking in early incarnations of Linux.

Linux kernel creator speaks out about the current controversy over an update to the key open-source license.

Asking Stallman (the founder of the Free Software Foundation as well as its titular head) to compromise is like asking the Pope to be less Catholic.

ATI HAS astonished me with the quality of its Linux drivers. Given ATI's past record of not caring about Linux users, I was shocked by the almost typing-free installation experience.

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