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A ‘Linux Desktop Base’ could help solve dependency problems
Author: Arvind Narayanan
The package installation problem is one of the primary barriers to
desktop Linux adoption. Most if not all solutions so far have...
Review: Mandrake Linux 10
I know that a lot of people have posted reviews on Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, etc. but here is mine. I downloaded the first 3...
Why Linux isn’t ready for the Desktop
First of all, we should agree on what the definition of "ready for the desktop" stands for. For some of us it refers to...
Introducing the Linux desktop
Author: Joe Bolin
Having used Linux exclusively for the last six years, I am amazed at the number of people who look over my shoulder...
Geeks, nonprofits parlay community at Penguin Day
Author: Jay Lyman
A couple of days before software movers and shakers got together to talk about changing industry with open source at OSCON, geeks...
The Linux filesystem challenge
Author: Preston St. Pierre
Linux boasts the widest array of filesystem support among mainstream operating systems. However, Microsoft (with Longhorn) and Apple (with Tiger) have...
Pay (even more) to surf the free web
Eddy Macnaghten writes "The BBC has a story regarding software patents: "
Patent clerks have a tough job
Patents that threaten the way we use the...
CLI magic: File Transfer Protocol
Author: Joe Barr
Wake up, you goodness-to-GUI slacksters! It's time to get up and get out of that hammock and put your feet on...
RMS on the SPF/Sender-ID License
OSDir writes "
"In a recent message to the MARID list RMS weighs in on the licensing issues of Sender-ID/SPF and Microsoft: 'Microsoft's Sender-ID license...
How Microsoft Can Embrace Linux
To make its way into developing countries, Microsoft is already finding it has to offer cut-rate pricing, and that has lots of the rest...