Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10, Oct 22, 2007

I've been using Windows since it was battling for desktop supremacy with GEM in the early 90s. In the mid 90s I spent several years producing newspapers on Apple Macs. Since the late 90s I've dabbled with Linux, but there have always been compelling reasons to return to, or stick with, Windows. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon).

The days of the monolithic upgrade are over. Five years, $6bn later and what do the ingrates do? Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP.

Microsoft added formal support for Linux to its Virtual Server product, but its hypervisor is still at least two years away

Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux Kernel and well-known open source advocate, picked up a lifetime achievement award at the LinuxWorld awards in London on Wednesday night.

Novell says the latest version of GroupWise will look so like Exchange that users won't notice the difference - not even if they migrate again through the Hula Project

SCO's litigation over Linux was hugely unpopular but there was a big upside, says the chief executive of Open Source Development Labs

HP has demonstrated Linux running on 64 Itanium 2 processors without any loss of efficiency, and says it's seeing growing interest in open source from financial institutions

Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and well-known open-source advocate, is among those effectively persona non grata at the UK Patent and Trademarks Office (PTO) public meeting on software patents next week.

The BBC has announced an open-source video compression project which it hopes may one day give Windows Media Player a run for its money

The BBC didn't make a particularly big show of its open-source video compression project at LinuxWorld in London on Wednesday, but if the codec lives up to expectations, it could soon be challenging Windows Media Player.

Security and the way windowing is handled remain two of the diminishing differences between Linux and Windows, according to one of the main speakers at Microsoft's developer conference

At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, a session was devoted to how, according to one Microsoft fan at least, the Linux kernel is beginning to resemble, well -- Windows.

Open-source middleware developer JBoss plans to use the $10 million venture capital injection it received in February to expand its "ownership" of open-source projects, according to CEO Marc Fleury.

"We are going for ownership of the code bases," Fleury said in an interview.