"I am still flabbergasted by an excellent speech I heard from the NZ IT Minister, David Cunliffe about Open Source at the New Zealand Open Source Awards recently. The speech was excellently written and delivered, and included some excellent tidbits including..."

openSUSE 10.3 is the latest offering from this excellent and matured Linux Distro, however, the install of SUSE 10.3 fails to impress. It is simply not modern enough. Most distributions offer LiveCD which double up as install CD, SUSE chooses to follow old style of only install CD, add to that SUSE install tries to download software from internet.

Linux Mint has always been a great distro, taking the excellent points of Ubuntu, and removing some of the bad points, such as the lack of multimedia plugins, and replacing the warm brown with a cool crisp green.

Sam has recently written a few excellent posts about open source software being used in unusual ways. He's also covered a few open source hardware projects.

If you run your data center on Linux you have likely heard of BTRfs, the next generation file system that was recently merged into the kernel. I recently sat down with Oracle developer Chris Mason to discuss the file system, how he corrupted Linus’ root filesystem with his first patch (and lived to tell about it).

Listen. I get it: Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distribution. The latest version, Ubuntu 10.04, is great, and I certainly see why there are several Linux distributions based on Ubuntu such as Kubuntu. But do we really need two new Ubuntu desktops, Unity and Light? Can Canonical do everything that it's already doing while adding more work to its load?

If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, most probably you are already familiar with plugins. These excellent add-ons help you extend the features of Wordpress giving you complete control on blog customization and enhancements.

Recently I argued that running Firefox off a bootable copy of Linux on a CD or USB flash drive was an excellent approach for online banking. Windows users face a torrent of malware and, for many people, maintaining and using a Windows system securely requires too much time, effort and technical expertise.

Kernel News has an excellent article covering the ins and outs of running Gentoo Linux. Not sure why no one covers Gentoo Linux anymore, nice to see someone is covering this excellent Distribution.