Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution based on Fedora and aimed mostly at the Japanese market.

2010 marks OpenOffice.org's tenth year of existence. To celebrate, here's a look - literally, because there are a lot of screenshots - at how OOo has evolved throughout the decade.

I put a lot of stock on the ability to do an in-place upgrade of my Linux/Unix desktops. And regarding upgrades from one distribution to another, Debian is supposedly one of the best. You always hear about those hard-core geeks who have been running the same box since Potato, dist-upgrading all the way to whatever the current stable or testing distribution is at any given moment.

Recently at OpenOffice.org we have decided to give more highlight to our many native-language communities, who are in charge not just of localization, but also QA, users support, documentation translation and marketing. This month, we start with the Irish native-language project, lead by Kevin Scannell.

The Parrot Foundation developers have released version 2.2.0 of the Parrot virtual machine, code named "Like Clockwork", on which the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6 will run

I hesitate to use a word as melodramatic as "evil" here, but Microsoft's near monopoly on computer gaming via its proprietary DirectX code has made it incredibly difficult for any company to consider releasing both Windows and Linux versions of its games.

Pinta is a drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users. It currently supports most basic drawing tools, unlimited layers, unlimited undo history, and a wide array of image adjustments and effects.