Top Ten Side Effects of Switching to Linux, Sep 28, 2007

Studies done by a prestigious think tank in Silicon Valley have identified the most common behavioral changes in people who have switched to Linux. They were nice enough to share their information with us. According to them, these are the ten most frequent side effects of Linux use with us.

Linux Online has obtained internal memos from the Ubuntu project regarding the codenames they choose for different releases of Ubuntu. The public is familiar with names like Dapper Drake and Feisty Fawn, but here, for the first time, we're providing the names that were debated by the development team but were eventually rejected as official Ubuntu version codenames.

Spanish newspaper El País is reporting that Linus Torvalds has been nominated for the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize (Premio Príncipe de Asturias) in the technical and scientific research category.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced on Friday that the next version of Mac OS X, named 'Margay' will use the Linux kernel.

The American Dental Association announced Friday that they are suing both the Free Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation over the use of the acronym FLOSS.

Kevin Carmony has taken the heat from some in the FOSS community for offering non-free software in Linspire, and in particular, for attempting to lure the FOSS community into contributing to Linspire via Freespire. Don Parris spoke with Linspire's Kevin Carmony to learn more about his position. Are the community's accusations fair? What other options are there?

If you like changing the look of your desktop every 5 minutes, then a new distribution might just be for you.

According to Steve Langasek and Colin Watson, release managers for the Debian GNU/Linux project, the distribution's testing version, named 'Sarge', has been frozen.

Linus Torvalds had the crowd at the VFW hall in Keokuk, Iowa mesmerized as he spoke on a wide variety of subjects - from 64 bit support in the kernel to what it was like being married to the former karate champion of Finland. The KILUG members let out a collective gasp, however, when Torvalds, asked to sign 5-year-old Seth Cronchman's stuffed penguin, held it up and asked the crowd: 'Don't you think its time to get rid of this stupid little bird?'.

Hispalinux, a national association of Spanish GNU/Linux users has threatened legal action against the country's central government over the inability of Linux users to access the Social Security's web services.

A controversy has emerged over a story written by Maureen O'Gara in Linux Business Week dealing with the SCO vs. IBM case.

A website and Wiki has been set up to solve the sometimes frustrating hardware support problems that Linux users run into. Florian Becker, initiator of Linux-Driver.org, has high hopes for the project.

Word hit the streets early today that a newly released Linux distribution known as Innocentix Linux is actually a clever copy of Windows 98. People who had downloaded and installed the new Linux offering remarked at how unstable in was. Pat Cruft of Meadowcake, Vermont, a network administrator, was attracted by newsgroup postings that talked about its 'ease of install, rockin' screensavers and low TCO'. "Actually", remarked Cruft, "everybody knows Linux has a low TCO, so I was somewhat surprised that they'd mentioned it specifically". What really surprised him was how it performed after the install. "It kept crashing. When I turned on my monitor, I'd see this blue screen and I just didn't know what to think. I said to myself: 'This doesn't behave at all like Linux!'" After consulting other sys admins via IRC, he found out that it really wasn't.

Webmaster's note: It's come to our attention that Linux fans in Australia have dunked Linus Torvalds in a pool. Pictures available.