The unfortunate experience that I have sometimes encountered when attempting to purchase a 'new' computer pre-installed with Linux, is that it can sometimes be more expensive than Windows

This week at the X Developers' Conference there was a talk surrounding OpenGL 3.x and its lack of complete support within the latest Mesa code. While development manpower can end up be limiting, there are also some patent / legal issues surrounding this with regard to some parts of core OpenGL being covered by such inhibitive patents.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that VIA Technologies, Inc. has become its newest member.

Linux.com, which was taken over recently by the Linux Foundation and received a major overhaul, has gone live.  The site has a slicker look and contains a lot of useful information targeted at experienced Linux users.  Unfortunately, like the old Linux.com, the site is not a very intuitive resource for beginners.

It's always been possible to port your application into any Linux distribution. All you had to do was know how to compile and link your program with each distribution's libraries and then package it up in either DEB or RPM package. Easy! Right? Right??

Presumably to respond to Apple's Get A Mac ad campaign and Microsoft's various responses, the Linux Foundation launched a competition a while ago for "We're Linux" ads. After receiving over 100 entires, they say, the results have been announced.

Linux stakeholders gather to celebrate the community's successes -- and to sort out some fundamental disagreements.