Official: Linux doesn't break laptops, Sep 14, 2007

PC World claims a customer who'd been told that the store wouldn't repair his laptop screen because he'd installed Linux on the system was simply the victim of a "misunderstanding."

AMD is buttering up the Linux desktop camp by announcing details of a major scheme to support the open-source development community for ATI Radeon graphics chips on Linux desktops.

The world will learn more about an artificial baby dinosaur at the ARM Developer's Conference two weeks from now in Santa Clara, Calif. There, Ugobe CTO John Sisokia is expected to reveal long-awaited details about the $350 Pleo and it's "Life OS," which is probably based on Linux.

Virtualization programs don't just run Windows on Macs: They can also run Linux (or any other Intel-compatible operating system). Here's how.

Canonical has busted out yet another version of Ubuntu – this time taking aim at the much hyped and loved virtualization market.

According to the Q2 2007 Jon Peddie Workstation Report, AMD is still struggling with a minority market share, Dell is still on top, and Hewlett-Packard is still the number two workstation manufacturer. Buried in the details, though, is something more interesting: Dell is also the number one Linux workstation manufacturer.

Although the rumored mobile platform is yet to be announced, software developers already sense a big business opportunity

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