Wall Street firms increasingly are buying into Linux, but some still need convincing that open source licensing and support models won't make using the technology more trouble than its worth.

An opinion piece that tries to provide a contrast between 'the Debian way' and 'the Slackware way' when it comes to distribution management and keeping consistency with upstream projects.

Even though I consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user, there are some things in Linux I haven't gotten around to yet. This isn't usually through inability to do something; it's usually a matter of not seeing the need for it. So it is with Compiz--I realize that I'm very late to the party, but I finally got around to installing it this week on my Kubuntu machine. First impression?

The State IT Agency (SITA) is transferring its entire technology infrastructure to free, open source and open standards software (FOSS).

"PLT Scheme version 4.0 is now available from http://plt-scheme.org/ -- This major new release offers many improvements over version 372, and we encourage everyone to upgrade..." -- Personally, i recommend using GNU Guile from within Emacs ;-)

* http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

Another variety of more analytical pieces: Red Hat did right where Novell did wrong; Microsoft abuses the system; ACTA is above the law.

For most hardcore gamers, Linux is taboo since they probably think that they cannot play their favorite Windows-only games with it. They do have a point of staying away from Linux, but if they knew that they can play some of their most wanted games on Linux, will they take the switch?