Without much fanfare, developers of Ubuntu Linux have delivered the latest version of the open source operating system that scores higher than Windows Vista in performance testing, does a better job than Windows in making wireless connectivity easy and, overall, leaves fewer reasons to stick with Windows than any other previous release of Linux.

Telstra, Australia's largest ISP, joins Microsoft and history serves as a warning

So, you've heard about Google's free software release of its Gadgets server, and the new Open Social. And gosh, wouldnt it be nice if you could provide this technology to your users with your favorite free software Content Management System (CMS)?

If your music library is tied to your CD collection or MP3 player, you can still hit the road without losing access to your tunes. Subsonic is a free, Web-based media streamer that lets you -- and your friends -- access your music collection over the Internet.

This release of Ubuntu and the previous one have both been quite interesting. Last one was was an LTS, or long term support, release which was widely criticized for adding too many new features and potentially unstable programs. This one, on the other hand, was not an LTS release, but was considered to be a relatively minor revision.

There is a lot of money being made in Open Source, although the profitable companies are not always the ones you would expect.

Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.`