The Linux Foundation will be calling its first LinuxCon conference from September 21 through 23 in Portland OR. Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth will be among the speakers and Linux Magazine Online will do a live stream, free for the keynotes.
Read more »Linus Torvalds in Live Streaming from LinuxCon
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tr.im to be Community-Owned
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Is this a good news or not?
What will change in the shorten URL panorama?
For me this is, first, a good move from Eric Woodward to fight the Bit.ly/Twitter embargo and, at the same time, allow the tr.im service to get a push up with the many developers that will engage on it.
What's your opinion?
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Red Hat Warns of Microsoft Windows Azure Lock-In
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During Red Hat Summit in Chicago, CEO Jim Whitehurst and Executive VP Paul Cormier warned attendees not to get locked into virtualization and cloud initiatives involving Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware.
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Murphy's Law: Open-Source Should Go Unrewarded
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Why do open-source programs win awards? Or, rather, what is it about open-source that makes us so prone to dishing out accolades--as if the very nature of a program being open-source somehow makes it indistinguishable from any other common application you can use. Why do we keep giving the same programs the same awards?
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Interview with Eric Hameleers: Why You Should Try Slackware
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Linux Magazine spoke with Eric Hameleers (known as Alien BOB) about the 64-bit port and why users should consider switching to Slackware. As Eric discusses, this 64-bit release came from a ground up approach which has even managed to benefit the 32-bit build in the process.
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How to convert non-techies to Linux.
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Linux has come a long way and today it is ready to be used by non technical users as well. A lot of individuals are not happy with Windows and are looking for an alternative. The problem is that because these users are not very interested in computers, they are not aware of Linux as an alternative.
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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World: Seven Observations From the Conference
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The VAR Guy is hanging out with 1,400 of his closest friends at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Chicago. Here are seven key observations from the conferences so far. Plus, guess which open source company skipped the shows.
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Akademy 2010 in Tampere, Finland
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The KDE community is proud to announce the location of next year's Akademy: Tampere, Finland. Akademy is the yearly world conference held by the KDE community to celebrate the Free Software desktop and work towards the future of KDE.
Read more »The Many Breeds of Ubuntards
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Like most religions, Ubuntu has different factions among its followers. There are the die hards, the excited newbies, the evangelists, and the old-timers among others. They may vary in degrees of knowledge, experience, willingness to learn, and maturity, but they all have one thing in common: they’re all Ubuntards.
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Atlanta Linux Fest 2009
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I interviewed Nick Ali, one of the great minds behind the Atlanta LinuxFest 2009. See what he has to tell us, and why you shouldn't miss it if you're lucky enough to be nearby on September 19th, 2009!
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The year of Linux - When will it be?
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Every year, there is talk of how Linux is poised to take the world by storm, and after close to twenty years of existence, Linux is still waiting for this day. I have always wondered; when is the year of Linux going to be?
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The Linux Foundation's grand new ambitions for Linux
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Jim Zemlin touts desktop, mobile, cloud potential at conference, while others preview Moblin 2, next-gen kernel plans
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The New PCLinuxOS Magazine September 2009 Issue
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is happy to announce the release of the September, 2009 issue.
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But Linux Looks So Different…
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When migrating to Linux, some users find it easier if the desktop environment looked close enough to Windows. Why? Because the familiarity gives them enough comfort to click around and do something.
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The 5 Problems I Have With Ubuntu
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I went cold turkey from Ubuntu nearly 11 months ago, for various reasons, only to force myself to learn other, more "complicated" distros, and in turn learn more about the Linux/Unix operating system.
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