We’ve been hitting on Linux HOW TO’s for quite some time now. Starting from the Open Source Revolution to LAMP and choosing a Linux distro to understanding the terminal, we’ve brushed up a lot of Linux related methodologies. It’s time now to have an analytical look at the Linux platform . To keep it more generic, I would prefer naming it - the Open Source paradigm.

Firefox is a great web browser, there is absolutely no argument about that. However those of us who are using linux long enough have went by quite well without it, and some still do. In the spirit of linux and open source (not so much for opera), it is only fair that we are aware of alternate options for linux browsers out there.

There's something strange going on. As Bill Gates steps down from active involvement in the day-to-day running of Microsoft, there's a natural tendency to speak about the “end of an era”. That's certainly true enough, but people are going beyond this factual statement to indulge in some serious revisionism.

For Louis Landry, a member of the core team for the Joomla!

"Hackers, slackers, countrymen and countrywomen:

Guile-Gnome-Platform, that beast of the dual hyphen, has finally reached stability. You might say that the API and the ABI are as stable as the hills, but we like to put it like this: "Write once, run anywhen" [...] More info at the homepage. DANGER CAPTAIN: ASSIMILATION IMMINENT"

Some important remarks from the CEO of Xandros tell too little, which is telling

There's some news on the Trend Micro v.Barracuda Networks case. That is the one where Trend Micro sued Barracuda over ClamAV and brought a complaint to the International Trade Commission. Barracuda has just filed a countersuit in California, alleging patent infringement by Trend Micro.

Various fronts, some of which associated/funded by Microsoft, are pushing for software patents in Europe using at least two back doors (harmonisation; Community Patent).