Any talk of Linux brings with it talk of what it will take to get Linux on the desktop in big numbers. Much of the talk in this vein revolves around distribution X versus desktop Y, or something of that nature. The real issue, though, may not be a particular distribution or package model, but the mind-set of the creators.

"Our next Justin.tv tech talk at the JTV office is this Thursday. Free pizza will be served at noon, and the talk will start at 12:30 (for approx. 40 min) [...] Jans Aasman will be talking about how Lisp and Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) are intertwined..."

"Popularity of a language at the end of the day, comes down to the passion of the user community. A passionate and vibrant community helps language adoption and help increase its popularity. We wanted to talk to a select few experts, people who are experts in the language and ask their opinion. This is Part 1..."

"...Back in February of this year I saw Richard Stallman talk at KTH here in Stockholm and was thoroughly impressed. I plucked up the courage to go up to him after the meeting and talk to him. The resulting conversation ended with him offering to talk in my hometown of Hamilton in New Zealand..."

"Hello, finally. This is an unusual talk in which I'm going to start by explaining the ideas of free software, and then go on to talk about how they extend to some things other than software.

When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight

As popular as they have been in the past, I still have some mixed feelings when it comes to the PR health of really low cost Linux PCs. On one hand, they are fantastic as they allow people access to modern computing that may have otherwise been prevented from switching from an older system or finding access to one, for that matter.

"...RMS also spend some time on elaborating why people shouldn't just talk about 'Linux' when they discuss those distributions they run on their computers, but instead should call it GNU/Linux [...] GNU's philosophy and motivation is the freedom of users, while Linux does not represent those values at all.

There are lots of different ways you can build software and the typical ways in which FOSS development and proprietary development are done are quite dramatically different. In this article, I’m going to talk about what problems the typical FOSS method can face when open source products are integrated within enterprise environments.