How To Run Linux From A USB Flash Drive, May 21, 2008

Want to run Linux any time, any place? Here's what to do with popular distributions like Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora, so you can boot up directly from your thumb drive.

...if you've found yourself saddled with the poor performance of Vista on your computer, or you have a machine that just doesn’t work properly with Windows anymore, then you owe it to yourself to at least boot your computer up with Ubuntu and try it out.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has again called for the developers of major open-source software programs and Linux distributions to synchronize their development and release cycles.

A serious flaw in a widely-used cryptography library has seen users of several popular Linux distributions scrambling to fix the problem.

Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo.

If you were planning to attend Ubuntu Live 2008 in July, we have some bad news for you: the event has been canceled. Speakers were quietly notified earlier this week and the event's Web site was updated late this morning.

It was just over a year ago that Microsoft Corp. dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.

A Hong Kong-based manufacturer is shipping a Linux-based ultra-mini PC (UMPC) laptop for only $250 ($180 in volume), which appears to give it the lowest price yet for a Linux laptop. Bestlink's Alpha 400 offers a 400MHz CPU and a 7-inch, truecolor display.

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