In a blog post Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Project, states his position regarding the recent spate of patent protection agreements with Microsoft.  He believes that the allegations regarding unspecified patents carry no merit. Allegations of “infringement of unspecified patents” carry no weight whatsoever. We don’t think they have any legal merit, and they [...]

An open source application called DevilsPie allows you to embed a terminal on your desktop.  The utility itself is designed to give you control of where applications appear when you open them - perhaps useful for kiosk devices.  An Ubuntu Forums post describes how to place a console as your background and how to set [...]

Gentoo, known in the Linux-o-sphere for its customizability has released its 2007 edition. Named ‘Secret Sauce’, the release was delayed awaiting security updates to core packages. The release contains the latest editions of GNOME and KDE as well as a completely rewritten installer. The Gentoo Release Engineering project is pleased to announce the much-delayed [...]

Once you’ve settled into using Linux on the desktop you may be interested in how you can start doing things a little more productively, or writing short scripts to do away with some of the more repetitive tasks.  Theres no getting away from the fact that a GUI can be limiting for some tasks.  Linux [...]

Responding to consumer demand Dell is in the process of certifying Novell’s desktop Linux product for its corporate machines.  Computer Wire reports: “We are listening, and as a result, we are working with Novell to certify our corporate client products for Linux, including our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks, and Dell Precision workstations. This is another step [...]

Linux Magazine has an interesting article discussing the possibility of Dell supporting Linux on their retail desktop machines.  After Dell asked for customer feedback through their Idea Storm website last week they received a large responses asking for the option of Linux being bundled with their machines or opting out of an operating system altogether.  [...]

土人天堂 has published a useful post describing how memory is used under Linux.  To the untrained eye Linux can look memory hungry - this article describes the reasoning behind that. This entry is for those people who have ever wondered, “Why the hell is a simple KDE text editor taking up 25 megabytes of [...]

Ubuntu Geek has put together a useful list of problems people have encountered when upgrading the Ubuntu Dapper release to Ubuntu Edgy.  Well worth a read if your looking for a solution. We have already discussed how to upgrade ubuntu dapper to edgyeft and some people are complaing after upgrade they had problems related to x [...]

Dagus.org has a short article listing some of the ‘top’ like programs that exist.  Top is a tool that allows you to monitor resources on your computer. All of you may know about the top command line of linux, well there are a lot of similar programs to monitor other type of resources, here we have [...]

Mosnews is reporting that  Russian schools are considering alternatives to Microsoft after  a headmaster was detained for using pirated copies of Windows.   Microsoft  claim that the incident wasn’t initiated by them. Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from commercial companies, said the region’s Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin. The announcement was made in [...]