Suspicions raised about possible involvement by the public relations department in employees' blogs

A variety of Novell news for those who wish to keep up with their latest changes and products (research purposes mostly)

Recently I have been thinking about the question of who should use Linux? Some might say that everyone should use Linux, but I disagree.

With the world economy in shambles many businesses are already battening down the hatches expecting rough seas ahead. IT budgets will shrink along with all other budgets, and maybe even more than other budgets.

Welcome to the future. Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen. Adobe today released version 10 of its Adobe Flash Player, available now in a variety of convenient packaging formats for Linux, as well as other popular desktop operating systems.

Many have tried, tested and fumbled. But not everyone has been as lucky in cracking a successful business model around open source. What's the trick? Is it the services and support periphery around the free core that makes revenues possible?

This one is freshly unearthed from my archives, its a nifty macro script that helped me win a bet. Fropper is India's leading social networking site, it features a 'Hit' user rating system. The idea of this hack is to increase your hit count by visiting and hitting as many profiles as you can. Web automation Imacros plugin for firefox is used here.

First, the good news for Canonical and its loyal followers: Yes, Wikimedia Foundation (the company behind Wikipedia) is embracing Ubuntu on its servers in a big way.