The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking.

So, is open source anti-American?

Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an anti-American, and anti-Western bias where it exists.

"We believe that the promoters of the projects we are opposing are trying to solve a problem similar to squaring the circle. They did not understand that we changed era, that some approaches are outdated, that we must collectively rethink our approach to the control of information. [...] The question now is how many centuries it will be necessary for the law makers to return to reason?

About three weeks ago, I was given a new group of Teen Immersion students to work with at the American International School in Saigon, Vietnam. Since I am their Computer Science teacher, you guessed it, I had them using Linux Mint during the first week of class.

We publish an open letter from Peter Drummond, Australia's IUPAP representative for computational physics and Fellow

Simon Phipps proposes a hard problem: expanding the definition of "open source" to include patents.

The easy part is dealing with any patents that are actually licensable by the person or company who is licensing the code. To get to a new "definition" you could say that copyright licenses that don't also grant a patent license must be accompanied by a patent license grant.

The BSD Certification Group, (BSDCG) held its first in-person BSDA certification exam session for systems administrators during SCALE last month in Los Angeles. Subsequent tests were then held held during FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, and Linux-Tage Chemnitzer in Chemnitz, Germany.

COMPUTER hardware manufacturers obviously feel there’s a large untapped market among the world’s young: Witness, the Eee, the Cloudbook, the One. These mini-laptops – and there’s a new one announced every week – have three major things in common: They’re cheap, they’re aimed at schoolkids and students, and they run Linux operating systems.