Almost a month ago, on September 24th, fellow zdnet blogger Mary Jo Foley filed a report under the title: Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging markets ..........As she points out, this Microsoft conclusion comes from work done for Microsoft by a company called “Vital Wave Consulting”, so I thought I’d read the whole thing

You've heard all the arguments in favor of Android, but those largely come from the companies who are promoting it. Chris O'Brien has his own point of view, and it doesn't look good for Android.

This guide shows how you can install the new OpenOffice 3.0.0 office suite on your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Your current OpenOffice installation will not be removed unless you uninstall it with Synaptic or on the command line, so you can run both versions in parallel if you like.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
A true classic and one of the most played online first-person shooter games, Wolfenstein: ET was supposed to be released as a new mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but the single-player part of the game was abandoned and it was released at no cost, as a standalone multiplayer game.

This week in our whirlwind tour of the Linux.com forums: demystifying your notebook's built-in webcam, demystifying the varying states of system RAM, and demystifying the ins and outs of running a shared server.

I’ve compiled a list of most used Linux based music/media/audio players. The list is not in a particular order, whatever you think is your favorite, mention it in the comments

Microsoft is now spending $300 million to counter Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. Does Linux need its own ad campaign?

Want to add a few more features and functionality to your Firefox status bar? Here are a some common tweaks you may want to make, and how you can get them added to your own browser.