The first official order for the so-called "$100 laptop" has been placed by the government of Uruguay.

In Windhoek last week, the Ministerial Bureau of the fifth Pan African Conference of Ministers for Public or Civil Service met to review progress on the collective work of the various public service ministers. Among the themes covered was that of e-governance and free and open source software (FOSS).

To certify, or not certify, that's the question.

Mandriva today announced that the Nigerian government has selected Intel-powered classmate PCs running on Mandriva Linux for educational use in nationwide pilot in Nigeria. Mandriva is working with Intel Corporation and Technology Support Center Ltd. to provide 17,000 Intel-powered classmate PCs.

I began what I like to think of as my “Linux Adventure”, in February of 2006 on a short, much-frazzled shoestring.

"...As many know, Gentoo is about choice, and the default choice is to "opt-in". So if you install Gnome on Gentoo, you get a bare-bone Gnome experience, sometimes in stark contrast to what other distros do. So in order to level the playing field, I'll be writing about how to enable some of those cool features. Today's special : gnome-keyring's pam module...."

Net neutrality effects all software users. The giant telcos want to censor the internet at will, then charge an arm and a leg for sub-standard service; just like M$ does.

So the latest IDC quarterly server report is saying that shipments of servers with Linux on them are on a downturn, compared to shipments of servers with Windows Server on them.

Game over, Linux, you are defeated.

Not.