The Linux Foundation Launches New Podcast Series With Linus Torvalds, Jan 13, 2008

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today launched Open Voices, a podcast series featuring interviews with the industry's top Linux and open source leaders.

It has taken more than two years, but the One Laptop Per Child initiative has finally released its much-anticipated laptop: the OLPC XO-1.

The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.

A number of unique consolidations are happening in the industry just as Microsoft is trying to get a buzz going about Vista.

President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp.

James Prendergast's column, Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument, touched a nerve among FOXnews.com's tech savvy readers and ignited a heated response.

In the end, the Massachusetts plan represents poor public policy and terrible technology policy.

A software patch is to protect against "Code Red" is already available on Microsoft's Web site. The problem is figuring out how to convince people to use it. Steve Lipner, head of Microsoft's security response center, said the company is looking for new ways to distributing patches more efficiently

It'd be easy to think that Linux, the computer-geek operating system, would look pretty dull. But the bright, colorful desktops might surprise you. All you need are a few skills to get your desktop to look like ... well, whatever you want