Linux Mint Xfce Community Edition Released, Sep 14, 2009

A Community Edition of Linux Mint using the Xfce desktop was announced over the weekend.

A steady stream of manufacturers are requesting Linux drivers for their hardware, suggesting growing adoption of Linux operating systems among enterprises.

Canonical has launched support services for individual and small-business users of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Teachers and school administrators who have to be creative about acquiring affordable educational software will find plenty to choose from in the world of open source.

If you are new to Linux, a few common mistakes could land you in hot water.

A security researcher has released zero-day code for a flaw in the Linux kernel, saying that it bypasses security protections in the operating system.

The company said it's targeting Chrome OS at netbooks. Interestingly, it's a market that it's set to enter, thanks to its Android mobile OS: Acer is already preparing an Android netbook and analysts are predicting the OS could do well in the low end of the netbook market.

Software company Red Hat reported a seven percent rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as its margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious chief executive.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has started a project to fix all the niggling user interface annoyances in its distribution.

The four reasons why normal people don't use linux: Inertia, Ignorance, Indifference and Innovation.

It looks like Linux Mint will be making their next release, 7 or "Gloria", in the next few days, according to the Linux Mint Blog. This is good news, because the new release is based on Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope", which means you will get OpenOffice 3, and quite a few other nice updates.

IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth. There is according to IBM, however, an area of PC investment that actually saves money for a company: the Linux desktop.

Canonical has begun beta-testing a file-synchronisation service called Ubuntu One for its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system.

If you read enough blog posts, or more specifically, comments posted on blog posts, you might get the idea that there are specific structural, technological or systemic reasons why Linux has only a small slice of the desktop market.

Version 9.04 of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was made available for download on Thursday.

You have to wonder if Microsoft really knows what it’s doing. There’s a lot of hoo-hah around the Web about Windows 7, and how it’s going to fix Vista’s problems. Thing is, the signs are that it won’t -- and that Apple will be the biggest winner. Linux is a winner too.

Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts.

Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution

Sheer economics are making the use of the Linux operating system increasingly widespread. It is free, reliable and safe. But when adopting any new operating system, users always have a lot to learn. On top of that, many users think Linux is hard to use, which is, of course, not necessarily true.

A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving.