One of the rants I've been seeing in increasing numbers of late is in the form of rants against Linux users who constantly try to "Evangelize" everyone into using Linux and/or Open Source software. Sadly, back in the day when Linux was new, there was plenty of low hanging fruit that such tactics would work on.

The hard work these distros are doing to clarify the legal position of their product isn’t even enough, because the Free Software Foundation doesn’t recognise them as free (as in freedom, not cost). So why bother?

Red Hat today announced that Trader Media Group and its website Autotrader.co.uk, the UK's no 1 motoring website, has standardised its platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

The KDE Community released the 4.3 version of its popular Linux/UNIX desktop environment, representing more than 63,000 code changes by 700 contributors, 10,000 bug-fixes, and 2,000 new features. KDE 4.3 adds numerous improvements to the Plasma Desktop Shell and Application Development Framework, among many other enhancements.

Renaming a company can be a torturous process. Developing the new brand, getting the word out, and answering questions can be long and grueling, and at least some customers are bound to be upset, and possibly quite vocal about it. Not everyone is willing to brave these waters, though Nokia obviously is, as it announced today the renaming of its corporate Qt division, Qt Software.

Acquia has raised $15 million in funding and they're putting it into dev for their next gen open source content management system. A key part of that is a new cloud based service powered by Drupal 7.

The Road to Ubuntu 9.10 continues steadily with the release of Alpha 4 karmic Koala, of course it is not a version for use in production environments, but if you're interested in working with the com