Ten years ago today on August 11, 1999, Red Hat saw its shares triple in an initial public offering that ushered in a new era of commercial open-source prosperity.

I just checked Planet Ubuntu (working late on some new articles, and expect to be in London by the end of the week) and i saw a link to Prude or Professional? (NSFW) and i thought it was another stupid article about the lame joke rms made some time ago with the dumb "stop sexism" stop sign.

And in all honesty it does require a bit of effort and willingness to adapt to a new Operating System and its applications. But in reality, it is no more difficult than learning to use a computer for the 1st time.

During this discussion we discussed what it would take to create a “definitive manual” for new Linux users migrating from Windows.. It became all too clear that there is one issue at the heart. That issue? Too many choices.

It's not the distro or even the Linux kernel that matter. It's the things made with Linux -- the servers, smartphones, netbooks, and other mobile devices.

A while ago, Windows was starting to gum up in the wheels, and I decided I’d try formatting and reinstalling Ubuntu. Overall, it just works. Until you need to develop something.

Time to put on my freedom hating hat. Yesterday I decided to jump on Karmic Koala at work. I did my usual style of upgrade by changing my sources.list to point to karmic instead of juanty. The upgrade went off with little hitch but the fun started when I rebooted.

We are pleased to announce Camp KDE 2010! Camp KDE 2010 will take place at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, California, USA from January 15th until January 22nd, 2010. The event is free to all participants.