Xubuntu offers appealing desktop alternative, Feb 15, 2007

Performance wise Xubuntu is everything I was hoping. It is light and fast. Clicking on the applications menu gives you immediate feedback. And unless you're running about five or six other applications at the time, opening a file browser or a terminal window is almost instantaneous.

Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant.

Sizing the Linux market ecosystem is no easy task. Downloads of Linux operating systems and applications are not an accurate measure. Analyst firm IDC, however, has a handle on the market and its size, and it's large.

Popular Science is sponsoring a contest for the best user-developed applications, scripts, services, or hardware additions to Nokia's Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet. Contest winners and their entries will be featured in the magazine's May and June issues.

The sequel to the 2005 Linux mystery thriller concerning the identity of the Groklaw blogger going by the name Pamela Jones has hit the street, and despite some fresh intrigue, it's as rough a slog as the original.

Three months into the sudden marketing and patent covenant agreement between Linux vendor Novell and Microsoft, the company's senior management are still justifying the merits of the deal and how it has so far been a blessing in disguise.

In the latest example of a Linux distributor looking to get closer to Microsoft, Red Hat said Tuesday that it has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance—a group of tech companies that are working to make their products more interoperable with those produce in Redmond.

Microsoft has settled an anti-trust case with authorities in Iowa over the software vendor's past monopolistic practices.

KVM, a new virtualisation technology that lets Linux computers run multiple operating systems simultaneously, has won a significant endorsement from Red Hat.

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