For the last month, four Fake Linuses have emerged, each one posting 140-character bursts of humor and insight to Twitter and indenti.ca, a free software alternative to Twitter that’s gained some traction among open-source devotees. The real Torvalds, who has remained suspiciously mum about the whole thing, but thankfully, we found his doppelganger to be just as audacious.

Today I attended the Saigon Software Freedom Day 2009 organized by a very active 19 year Vietnamese open source advocate and leader of the rejuvenated Saigon Linux User Group.

All the glass clicking and cheers of late surrounding the apparent conversion of Microsoft to the open source fold needs to stop. We need the Cold War. We need Communism. And, yes, we need the OS Wars.

We live in a world where, unfortunately, image is everything to the general public, enterprise business and the media. This image provides the reputation from which the validity of the product, person or business is judged. In the computing world, regarding software, I would say that there are three main players.

Proxmox VE is a very light-weight Debian-based distribution that includes a kernel with support for both KVM and OpenVZ. This means you get the best of both virtualization worlds... containers (OS Virtualization) and fully-virtualized machines (Machine Virtualization).

Just as using your car's trunk as storage space is plain wrong, there are circumstances when using Linux, no matter how benevolent the effort may be or the users seemingly pleased with their evangelistic experiences, is misguided.

Surfing the net all this time on topics related to GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, I came across various interesting, imaginative and some times funny advertisements and videos. Here are the top 12, in random order.

The last few years has seen the company formerly known as Trolltech open their arms to one of the largest parts of their supporting community, KDE, in a new way: By offering a few members of the KDE community free admittance to the Qt Developer Days conference. This year is no different, and they have invited a number of people to attend this year&'s conferences.