Clearing up the Novell ClearType controversy, Apr 11, 2007

A recent story on the "Boycott Novell" website reported that "Novell's Linux is losing features which supposedly infringe on Microsoft software patents." That, according to Novell director of public relations Bruce Lowery, is not at all the case.

I tested the recent Pioneer Linux Basic Release 2 (R2), which is based on Kubuntu Edgy 6.10. Apart from a few minor cosmetic changes and some additional applications, Pioneer isn't very different from a stock Kubuntu.

The number of mobile phones running on Linux is predicted to rocket in the next five years, with more than 200 million in use by 2012--up from just 8.1 million currently.

One day - soon, possibly, maybe - you might find yourself using a form of Linux, even if you're a diehard Windows user. It's the next big thing.

Thanks to a new effort from cell phone giant Nokia, the divide between applications targeted at Linux and those for Symbian may be getting a whole lot narrower.

Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.

If you've got a tick to spare, or you're simply the type who shoves any flavor of Linux on any flavor of gadgetry that'll accept it, here's yet another opportunity to kill some time and check out the OLPC a bit further.

Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better.

Now that Debian 4.0, Etch, has finally arrived, what do people make of it?

The accusations and counteraccusations continue to fly between ACT legal counsel Richard Wilder and open-source luminary Bruce Perens over whether the third draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 creates genuine legal risks for the drafters and potential users.

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