Learn Linux Leanly, Mar 11, 2009

Ah yes, there's that all too familiar sound of tightening budgets and the tossing aside of those things perceived as non-essential. Your dilemma is that you need to learn Linux but you have no money to buy training — what do you do — wait indefinitely for money to return to the coffers, download Linux and fumble through it on your own? Or, do you take the initiative and find some inexpensive or free learning resources?

Every so often John Dvorak takes a stab at Linux, to see exactly what he likes and do not like about the OS.

Cisco in the server hardware business? With VMware? Using Linux? Has the world gone topsy-turvy?

Google’s Android operating system gave Linux-on-mobile sales a healthy boost in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Three leading commercial open source companies have been selected to deliver a complete trading desk solution that gives the financial services industry a way to automate a majority of business functions done by most trading desks today.

Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.

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