Make Linux 'gorgeous,' Ubuntu leader says, Oct 30, 2006

Mark Shuttleworth wants to take the ugly duckling, which is the Linux desktop operating system, and turn it into a beautiful swan.

I've just realized that all this software I use, made by the most talented people around the world, is FREE, it comes to me with no strings attached, so I will take my time to say a big THANK YOU and not take all this for granted, as maybe someday, God I hope not, they will disappear, and I don't want to then realize that I had all that powerful software for FREE and I didn't even care.

Eagle-eyed Ubuntu 6.10 users may have noticed that their favorite new version of this popular Linux distribution has an old friend: Firefox.

Red Hat is buying back US$250 million in stock and US$75 million in debt notes after competition from Oracle depressed its stock price

IBM Corp has announced that it has completed a pilot project with the UK government's Cabinet Office to test advanced security mechanisms in Linux and WebSphere, and is now looking for new projects to test the Mandatory Access Control capabilities with DB2 and Tivoli.

Let's clear something up right away: Larry Ellison's blockbuster announcement earlier this week wasn't meant to choke the life out of the open-source movement.

In recent months, there is one thing that’s on my mind - open source revenue vs. revolution. Seriously, while the revolution is well underway within the open source community, one has to question which of these two previously mentioned ideologies will, in the end, be the deciding factor on the future of software and OS' as a whole.

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