Basically, they [(Microsoft)] move, we rant, they win. It's done through an interesting bit of social engineering that turns our anger at them and their antics into into a tool to turn away potential Linux and OSS converts and guide them back to the Microsoft sheep fold.

"Mozilla Labs, a research arm of Mozilla Corp., has released software that lets users strip a Web application from its enclosing browser and then work with the app as if it were a traditional desktop program..."

Troy Unrau, the writer of "The Road To KDE 4" series of articles tracking KDE 4 development, recently found Kubuntu was no longer up to the task of running his systems, and switched over to Mandriva Linux 2008. "Nothing is broken; everything "just works!" which is exactly why I went to Kubuntu years ago."

The Eternity Screensaver plays animations of ray-traced scenes which took days or even weeks to generate. The reasoning is that these clips should look more impressive than anything which can be generated on-the-fly.

It's been a good few weeks for distro releases with Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva all releasing new versions but which ones best? The LUGRadio team talk to Adam Williamson from Mandriva then don asbestos suits and put all four through a series of real world tests. Find out which came out best and which to avoid like the plague.

The GNOME team is out with the road-map for GNOME 2.22, 2.24, and future releases. There's quite a few changes planned, but a few in particular had caught our attention.

It looks as if the great experiment by Radiohead to see how much fans would pay for a new album if left to value it for themselves, pay what it is worth if you like, has misfired. Apparently 60 percent of downloaders decided it was worth, well, nothing at all in fact.

It is not uncommon for those who write about Linux or other FOSS software to be inundated with feedback from users. At times that feedback is a bit unbalanced, a trifle raw and, occasionally, plain silly.