Dell is spending advertising dollars to promote PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. The move has significant implications for the business world as well. Here’s why.

Mitchell Baker: « We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion...» --

I'll start with a quote from the official Songbird homepage, which goes like 'Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players'. Although not (yet) as popular in the audio players world as Firefox is in the one of web browsers, Songbird looks and offers an interface which integrates both powerful browsing features and music collection management.

The school is deploying the GNU/Linux operating system, aiming to have free software across the board by 2010, and the complete switch to Linux has been approved by the MoE, says the school’s principal, Nathan Parker.

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The pace of software development - regardless of the licence - is pretty fast these days. The state of your systems need constant monitoring. New features, bug-fixes and (most important) security updates need to be properly managed. Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler.

Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions.

Everyone has their preference on how they think fonts should be rendered. If you're not happy with the appearance of fonts on your system there are a few easy tweaks to try for better rendering.