Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling, Aug 18, 2008

Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling on that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement.

The SCO Group 's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn't actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten -- and in some cases, sue -- Linux users.

I just renamed my two previous blogs about migrating from Windows XP to SLED 10 in a business environment as “Linux Desktop Odyssey” so everyone can easily keep up with my progress.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.26 of the Linux kernel after a lengthy three-month development stretch since the 2.6.25 release involving nine release candidates.

Intel has launched what it believes are the world's smallest processors, dubbed the Atom.

The maturing expectations of desktop operating systems have given Linux a better chance than ever of denting the desktop - even as they have helped down Windows Vista, says Linus Torvalds

Having successfully reinvented itself as a Linux company, Novell is now making a substantial portion of its turnover from a single and surprising source - Microsoft.

A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company's open source code.

Linux cannot be stopped by Microsoft, according to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, who has given his views on where Linux is going over the next year.

The UK government does not know how much open-source software it uses or what its value is, ministers have admitted.

There's a scene in the 2004 movie Mean Girls in which the most popular girl in the film's fictional high school finds out that a friend who now is a fast-rising social rival plans to throw a party without inviting her.

When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?"

By 2012, Linux will be running on nearly 31 percent of all smart devices, thanks to a growth rate faster than Windows Mobile and Symbian, according to predictions from a research firm.

Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel's development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements on the desktop.

Red Hat's chief executive has revealed that the company held talks with Microsoft last year over a possible patent agreement like the software giant's controversial deal with Novell.

Back in the early 1990s, when Linux initiator Linus Torwalds and open source software started to make headlines, the idea of giving software away seemed crazy. Looking at the headway the movement has made since then, you might be forgiven for wondering why Linux desktops have failed to become as ubiquitous as Linux servers are.

Red Hat's Fedora Project has given the open source community tools that let users build customised Linux distributions in Fedora 7, which was released yesterday.

VA Software has folded its software division and changed its name to Sourceforge. The former Linux vendor will focus its business entirely on the web.

With the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, Red Hat is both following and bucking server operating-systems trends we’ve witnessed in past tests of Novell’s SuSE Linux and Microsoft’s Longhorn beta code.

Can Dell really offer Linux on its desktops? That's a question that a number of industry observers are asking. Most conclude that it can't -- but are they right?