An article published in iTWire titled 'Opinion: why Linux sucks at being user friendly' has been drawing a lot of attention recently. I am going to start by responding to each of the author's points and then pointing out what I think the overall problem is.

It's all about bipartisanship and unity in this week's roll call for the Linux.com forums. Old distro and new distro coming together, peripheral and computer learning how to work as one, and, just as the framers intended, a run-off between several distinguished' absentee answer' questions.

According to Groklaw, SCO might be trying to dodge into another trademark where it suffers none of the same poor reputation.

In this tutorial we will see how to enable remote desktop access in ubuntu desktop and accessing remotely.vino is VNC server for GNOME.VNC is a protocol that allows remote display of a user’s desktop.

this tutorial will help you install and configure the Apache Web server, whether you're running Windows or Linux (Ubuntu or other distributions), or even a Mac.

Songbird, which is a free, open source media player built on the same technologies underlying Firefox, is just about ready to take on iTunes.

Pingdom, a Web site monitoring outfit, did a piece on open source corporate valuations on its blog recent and they make sobering reading.

What about "Linux under the hood"? By that I mean, what about the virtues of embedded Linux systems? What about Linux running "in everything from cell phones to car ABS systems and water-filtration plants..."? That's what Yaghmour, et al proposes to teach you in this book.