Believe or not Sony playstation is not supporting Linux anymore, as announced on the Playstation blog, they droped the support for Linux based operating systems, by removing the "Other OS" option from XMB (XrossMediaBar) in its PlayStation 3 gaming console. This started the 1st of april after their latest firmware update.
Read more »Sad news for Linux : Sony is not supporting Linux anymore
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Flash versus HTML5 clash
Adobe's Flash is still the dominant rich media platform on the Internet, but HTML5 is coming. Love it or hate it Adobe's Flash technology is a key part of the Internet as it currently exists. It hasn't always been so and it may not remain so for much longer if the likes of Google, Apple and Microsoft have anything to do with it.
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Mozilla State of the Internet Report
Today we released the first ever Mozilla Quarterly Analyst Report, focusing on the State of the Internet. This is the start of something new… in addition to metrics related discussions on this blog and across the broader community, we wanted to create a somewhat standardized, ongoing report capturing the state of the internet as seen through Mozilla’s eyes.
Read more »Motivation and Contributions in Open Source: Stop Romanticizing Unpaid Contributions
Does motivation matter? Open source contributors are increasingly people who are paid to work on open source. GNOME contributor Lucas Rocha asks how this impacts communities over the long term. This is not a new question by any stretch.
Read more »Ubuntu Unravelled
I’m aware that nearly all people in the Linux ecosphere are familiar with what Ubuntu is. However, it is my impression that many people, including some Ubuntu users, do not know how the distribution is made.
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Consequences of UNIX up for Sale
How the outcome of the SCO case - as positive as it is - relates to the future
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Mozilla Updates Firefox for Security, Ends 3.0.x Branch
Mozilla is out this week with Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 updates, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities in the open source Web browser's two branches, while announcing that the older of the two branches is being phased out.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Released; RHEL 6 Coming Soon
Red Hat is updating its flagship Linux server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to version 5.5 providing performance and feature improvements.
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Linux, Where Crapware Goes to Die
Remember this cute little purple ape? If you’re a Linux user, you might not. He was one of the earliest malware/spyware/crapware programs for the Microsoft Windows platform. Why were Linux users left out in the cold during the heyday of BonziBuddy?
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Firefox developers block old CSS leak
The Mozilla developers have described how they intend to fill an ancient privacy loophole which allows a user's history information to be leaked to web applications
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Linux and Small Business: The Ongoing Disconnect
While Red Hat, Novell, Canonical and other Linux distribution providers continue to gain momentum, most of the Linux chatter has very little to do with small business success -- where Microsoft's grip on customers remains firm. Here's why.
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Makagiga - Easy-to-use application for doing a variety of tasks
Makagiga is a free, easy-to-use, cross-platform application for doing a variety of tasks, such as text editing, todo listing, RSS reading, and simple image viewing. Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities. It can perform file import/export, backing up files, Internet searching (Google, Wikipedia), and more.
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Thunar and Rox Filer: Mighty File Managers
Thunar and Rox Filer are different from the average file manager, and different from each other too. Both are powerful and flexible, offering features unavailable in other Linux file managers.
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Linux on Netbooks Reloads With Ubuntu-based Jolicloud
Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks, so what makes this French start-up firm think it can succeed with an Ubuntu Linux derivative?
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 70
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. Perhaps obvious but worth mentioning anyway
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