Amarok is a very decent audio player. If you would like to organize your music than Amarok will definitely help you out. You can add, edit playlists, add album art, lyrics and sort songs by artist or genre.

In open source or in product development generally, one of the biggest mistakes is to take on a deeply entrenched incumbent on its own turf. Almost inevitably, if you play someone else's game, even if you're a little cheaper/faster/better, you're going to lose.

Canonical has just released a new "cloud" service for all users: Ubuntu One starts today as an invitation-based Beta. There are two storage options momentarily: a free 2GB account and a $10/month 10 GB one. If you are familiar with services like Dropbox, Ubuntu One apparently does the same job.

When I want to set up a new GNU/Linux computer, rather than set it up on the hardware I’m going to use, I find it more convenient to create a virtual machine on which I do all of the setting up and then convert the virtual computer to a real one by copying the virtual disc to the real computer’s hard disc (if this is the opposite of virtualisation, is it “realisation”?).

Advanced Micro Peripherals announced a PC/104-Plus-format multi-channel video controller board with a Linux-compatible software development kit.

Free software, and especially desktop Linux, is a difficult place to run a successful business since your main product is, of course, free. Canonical, though, looks like it might succeed.

Today I’d like to share with you another great application that has replaced uTorrent (which I ran in WINE for a while and disliked), Deluge. What I love about deluge is that it is a native application with an interface that looks and behaves much like uTorrent does.

Free open-source software is not so free anymore as more companies — including longtime makers of conventional software — strive to make money on the technology.