You might have worked with Linux for years and never added an additional disk to your system or perhaps you were too frustrated by Linux’s strange ways of dealing with disks to attempt it. In either case, here’s your opportunity to work through the steps required in adding a new disk to your system.

In a move that must surely strike at the very core of open source, FOSS, and the heart of GNU crusader Richard Stallman, SourceForge has now blocked all access from by countries on the U.S. 'Foreign Assets Control sanction list'.

The last release candidate of KDE SC 4.4 is out. Following up the first release candidate, another number of bugs has been searched and destroyed. This releases fixes some problems found during the earlier testing phase, and acts as a last line of defense before KDE SC 4.4.0 will be released on February, 9th 2010.

How do the latest versions of GNOME and KDE compare with each other? To find an answer, I divided the two desktop's configuration and admin tools into five main categories. The results, while sometimes murky, give a generally clear picture of the state of the mainstream Linux desktops.

Ubuntu. Ah Ubuntu. My old friend. That operating system that, despite being one of the best (if not THE best) desktop operating systems available, still can not gain any traction. But that can change. In the newest release of the Ubuntu Software Center you will find an “iTunes-like” music service.

Some of Microsoft's latest moves against Google, including Google's endeavours that promote GNU/Linux

Microsoft gives non-Free (proprietary) software to community agencies (nonprofits) and calls it a donation

January 31st will be my last day with Novell. I've given it a great deal of thought, and decided that it's time to move on.