Recently, the Free Software Foundation announced its latest additions to its listing of open-source purist distributions. This lead me to thinking about both these distributions and the best of the distributions that go the other way and contain a great deal of proprietary programs.

LuckyBackup is a backup and sync application running on Linux and Mac OSX, powered by the rsync tool.

It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable.

GNOME release manager Vincent Untz talks to heise open about the projects future plans for the popular desktop manager.

A group of developers at the Digital Technology Group (DTG), formerly the Laboratory for Communication Engineering (LCE), at the University of Cambridge have released two Android applications that allow users to browse the web anonymously using The Onion Router. The Onion Router, commonly referred to as Tor, is free software designed to provide internet anonymity to users while browsing online.

A few developers have tried to discern the goal behind Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation established just a week ago. A legal advisor for the Linux Foundation has made some recommendations to what he considers the foundation's faulty organizational structure.

I have been a proponent of the Linux operating system and Open Source for quite some time. I’ve been using Linux on a day to day basis. However, I have never been able to use Linux as my exclusive operating environment.

For most people in Melbourne, Saturday, September 20, was just another day for trying to recover from the excesses of the previous night, knocking back from work, lazing, and reading the newspapers on the web.

I along with about every other Linux blogger got all bunched up over Microsoft "training" Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples in the art of besmirching Linux.