Tux is the world famous and endearing symbol of Linux. I don’t know any other software mascot that is so loved and venerated other than Tux. There are plenty of reasons for this phenomenon, but I won’t try to enumerate it here. Perhaps seeing my collection of "30 Coolest and Funniest Tux Icons" can somehow help explain why Tux is so adored.

"After using Firefox 3 Beta 4 (built from source) for a few hours, I'm pretty impressed: [...] Now I just have to wait for Iceweasel 3.0, and in the meantime I won't be going back to version 2.0!"

Ubuntu is sometimes thought of as the beginner's distro, something that more advanced users don't care about - they think if you're advanced, you need Slackware or something where you have to build it from scratch, rewrite or add parts to the kernel to make it more compatible to your system, write your own drivers, etc, but that just takes up time.

Last time, we covered Linux applications for creating content. Today we will be covering organizational and web-based programs for Linux.

The official 1.0 release of MonoDevelop was announced late last week. The open source development environment includes a number of advanced features such as project management tools, a graphical user interface designer, a unit testing system, version control integration, and an add-in system that facilitates extensibility.

Novell helps non-profit educational company reduce costs by implementing ZENworks Asset Management and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen virtualization

Increasingly, reading what is actually said is a dying art. This impression had a boost last week from the reactions to comments made by Jim Zemlin, the executive director of The Linux Foundation in an interview with InfoWorld entitled "Linux Foundation: "We'd love to work with Microsoft."

"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P&quot. Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."