Linux saves Aussie electrical grid, Oct 01, 2009

Quick thinking open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room network got infected with a virus.

Linux hackers working on the next version of the Linux kernel claim that some new improvements will speed up the OS on the desktop.

The Australian Defence Force's latest flight simulator runs on SuSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers.

LINUX users who want to run their computers so that they look like Macs can pick up a Mac4Lin distribution.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been one of the surprise backers of people who the RIAA thinks should pay massive fines for sharing copyrighted music files online.

Mandrivia has unleashed its Spring 2009.1 release, the latest version of its popular and freedom-based, easy to install and use Linux distribution.

Linux vendor Red Hat has published a study it calls the Open Source Index, which presents a comparison of open source adoption and potential in 75 countries.

While the global recession may have many down in the dumps, it's apparently good news for Linux, with market research outfit IDC claiming it's going to come out of the crunch a winner.

Phoenix Technologies has added an Office-like productivity suite to its fast-boot Hyperspace platform.

GNU SOFTWARE is turning 25 years old this year, so the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is celebrating with a month-long party launched by the release of "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short video with English humourist, actor, novelist, film maker and posh bloke Stephen Fry.

IF YOU BUY one of those nifty Linux preloaded notebooks from the likes of Dell, Asus, or Lenovo, the default web browser will always be Firefox.

If you visit the US Democratic Party Convention site and try to use the streaming software using Linux you will be told you should pay for your operating system like every other good clean living American.

IF YOU were anxiously awaiting "The World's first smartphone based on Access Linux Platform (ALP)" then wait no more, and the Samsung i800 has gone the way of the dodo.

IN A SOMEWHAT shocking revelation, One Laptop Per Child has said that they might dump Linux from their XO laptops in favour of the Vole’s Windows XP. The seeming surrender to the evil corporate world comes just a day after the company’s president tendered his resignation.

The Brazilian Electoral Supreme Court announced last Friday that Brazil's 2008 elections will use 430,000 electronic voting machines running GNU/Linux and open sauce voting applications.

One of the potentially biggest announcements at CES will probably go unnoticed by most, a Linux box from Shuttle. Get ready for a low priced machine from a big name, a first that I am aware of.

A reader attempting to log into a Barclays web site here found himself with a little bit of a problem.

Dell has caught up to the Ubuntu release machine, adding the latest version of the operating system as a standard option with Linux-friendly laptop and desktop.

Even armed with better eye candy, the new KDE 4 interface claims to use 40 percent less memory than its earlier versions.

Seagate has issued a workaround for Linux users who want to use its Free Agent drives.