Red Hat profits rise amid rivals' earnings losses, Jun 25, 2009

Software company Red Hat reported a seven percent rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as its margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious chief executive.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has started a project to fix all the niggling user interface annoyances in its distribution.

The four reasons why normal people don't use linux: Inertia, Ignorance, Indifference and Innovation.

It looks like Linux Mint will be making their next release, 7 or "Gloria", in the next few days, according to the Linux Mint Blog. This is good news, because the new release is based on Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope", which means you will get OpenOffice 3, and quite a few other nice updates.

IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth. There is according to IBM, however, an area of PC investment that actually saves money for a company: the Linux desktop.

Canonical has begun beta-testing a file-synchronisation service called Ubuntu One for its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system.

If you read enough blog posts, or more specifically, comments posted on blog posts, you might get the idea that there are specific structural, technological or systemic reasons why Linux has only a small slice of the desktop market.

Version 9.04 of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was made available for download on Thursday.

You have to wonder if Microsoft really knows what it’s doing. There’s a lot of hoo-hah around the Web about Windows 7, and how it’s going to fix Vista’s problems. Thing is, the signs are that it won’t -- and that Apple will be the biggest winner. Linux is a winner too.

Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts.

Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution

Sheer economics are making the use of the Linux operating system increasingly widespread. It is free, reliable and safe. But when adopting any new operating system, users always have a lot to learn. On top of that, many users think Linux is hard to use, which is, of course, not necessarily true.

A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving.

With thousands of Linux tools available, it is inevitable that some of the best ones get lost in the crowd.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will feature the ability to "disable" Windows components, meaning they're no longer available to users of that machine. Unfortunately this largely misses the point. Even disabled components are still "staged" on the machine's hard drive, so taking up space. Open source software shows us the way it should be done.

VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows.

For large-scale adoption, Linux needs to be as simple to use as the competition.

In trying to get more businesses to adopt Linux and open source software over the past 18 years or so, I've discovered that no matter how good Linux becomes, one hurdle stubbornly remains - in fact, it's the biggest hurdle that Linux and free/open source will ever face: vendor lock-in.

The economic downturn could be one of the biggest threats to face traditional tech vendors, as businesses increasingly look to alternative technologies to help get them through the recession.

Mandriva has introduced a version of its Linux operating system that is optimised for netbooks, the increasingly popular class of low-cost subnotebooks.