Linux on the desktop? Why not?, May 21, 2008

...if you've found yourself saddled with the poor performance of Vista on your computer, or you have a machine that just doesn’t work properly with Windows anymore, then you owe it to yourself to at least boot your computer up with Ubuntu and try it out.

Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.

One person's trash is another's treasure, and this weekend open source vendors and community members plan to join forces with a Northern Californian recycling organization to transform hundreds of desktop and laptops into PCs loaded with Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice and more to be donated to needy area schools.