The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this article, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the features and benefits of PS3 Linux, and explains some of the issues that might benefit from a bit of tweaking.

No matter how hard you try, unless you've committed yourself to giving up any and all Windows based applications, you tend to find yourself stuck in a situation where you must emulate at least one of these applications inside of Linux. This is where emulators such as Virtual Box and Wine come in handy to help you bridge that divide.

Linux has a negative image associated with it; a most unfortunate affliction when that image is contrary to the truth. I'm occasionally asked "why do you bother with Linux?" by people who haven't used it recently under the assumption that it's difficult to use, counter intuitive, geeky, nerdy and any number of other adjectives.

Microsoft has filed a complaint about the OOXML disapprove vote in India, according to a report on Open Source India by Venkatesh Hariharan

"This HOWTO will describe how to install BackupPC and how to create a simple backup using backuppc. BackupPC can offer a nice solution for both simple and complex backups..."

"...novice-friendly software has a despicable habit of piling feature upon feature without really getting any more advanced -- it's the same stupid dog learning more and more tricks. those tricks are just long, automated sequences of manual commands. Emacs isn't like that. Emacs tricks have to do with algorithmically modifiable and parametrically adjustable behavior.

Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB).