The media has begun the "open source Microsoft" blitz using Apache as an excuse

I never understood why Google chose StarOffice instead of OpenOffice.org to be part of the freely downloadable Google Pack software. But now, and without warning, StarOffice seems to have been dumped by Google.

Quite frankly, the progress of Ubuntu's marketing is, at best, slow. The idea of the features page is nice and this year there is even a animation on the home page advertising some of Ubuntu's new features, but the message of all this is wrong.

These days, most of us can use our Wi-Fi cards on Linux using native drivers. Some of us, though, are still stuck with using Windows drivers on Linux.

Alfresco Developer Guide is a new book from Packt that walks users through customizing Document Management and Web Content Management on the Alfresco Platform. Written by Jeff Potts, the Director of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Practice at Optaros, this book shows users how to create their own applications that interact with Alfresco via RESTful web scripts.

See your comments and suggestions for improvements in action ...for the most part ;)

The fourth beta release became available Monday, with some new bug fixes, updated versions of GNOME, Banshee and the kernel, and webcam support re-enabled. One of the changes long time openSUSE users will notice right away is the new YaST disk partitioner.

Transitioning from Windows to Linux often leaves you scratching your head, wondering what software to use for common tasks. Sure, Linux has alternative software, but sometimes you just want to install a Windows application that you are used to.