Every time I walk through an Office Depot, Best Buy, or any other store that sells computers and software, I hear sales people telling customers about how they also NEED to buy MS Office with their new computer. I get the impression that most people buy a computer simply to run MS Office thus turning their computer into a glorified typewriter.

Microsoft has appointed a new point man to put a face on its interaction with the open source community. That man, Robert Duffner, takes on a big task as senior director of Platform and Open Source Software strategy at Microsoft. His IBM and BEA roots will help him place his mark on the Microsoft strategy, but the core message remains the same.

This course covers the OpenSUSE operating system step-by-step providing an in-depth look at the popular Linux operating system. Users can work at their own speed through the screen shot-filled course topics which include the desktop, file system, terminal, printing, package management, system monitoring, OpenSUSE applications and much more.

A remote medical diagnostics application that integrates a Linux server and an application running on an Android cellphone is heading for a trial in the Philippines. The "Moca" software was developed by an open source project that grew out of an MIT Media Lab class.

Many people don’t realize the wealth of applications that are available for Linux. I am asked all the time about X and/or Y application on Windows and whether there’s an equivalent on Linux. Most of the time the answer is yes.

Being a GNU/Linux user is a peculiar thing in that you stand a great chance of being pulled into such hard to define brackets such as "Linux community", "Free Software community" or "Open Source community".

Like Firefox, the open source media player Songbird is a pretty neat alternative to a big-name competitor on its own, but the ability to extend it through add-ons is what really makes it boss.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 8.10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.