Dell is hot on Moblin, lukewarm on Chrome, Jul 16, 2009

It looks like there’ll be Linux-powered netbooks, MIDS and more in Dell’s future, but Moblin rather than Chrome appears to be the distro de jour.

Linux distros that run on pen-drives are nothing new but this one's specially designed for the little ones.

IBM has decided it no longer wants Sun at any price, but Dell is taking another tack... With Sun setting itself up for sale, a number of companies have started gazing towards its direction. While some of them are fixing their sights on the company itself as a whole, others are locking in on smaller, tastier prey - Sun's customers. Dell is one such predator.

What's the best Linux distribution? It's one of the most commonly asked questions from people who are new to Linux. The answer? Well, there isn't really a simple answer.

Linux runs on the first e-book reader released this year ... and on the second ... and the third.

Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.

Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software package, which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows applications run in a Linux environment.

... it can sometimes be hard to get a big picture overview of where Linux is going: what's happening with kernel version 2.6? Will there be a version 3.0? What has Linus been up to lately? What does he get up to in his spare time?

Just when Microsoft wants you to forget about alternatives to Vista, along comes the Debian based project that allows you to not only install Linux on a Windows system, but do it right under its nose.

Mandriva hopes the inclusion of Cedega in the install package will help push Linux as a desktop to the very market that usually wouldn’t give it a second look — the gamers.

This month, however, the holy grail came within sight with Szabolcs Szakacsits from the Linux-NTFS team presenting a new beta NTFS filesytem driver built to work with FUSE, an extensible system for userspace filesystems.

Are you ridiculously paranoid? Do you like to jam in your bedroom? Can you think of nothing better than digital image editing? Then a ridiculously niche Linux distribution is just what you need and only a download away. Welcome to the world of obscurity.