Tux goes on Spring break
Everybody's favorite penguin (Steve Ballmer excluded) is checking out for the Spring. No worries, though -- a new fella from Down Under is going to be standing in, and it's all for a good cause.
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Firefox inches towards 50%, Safari holds steady
These are the kind of stats that should make the Mozilla folks very happy. According to W3Schools data, Firefox climbed to 46.
Apple still neglecting developer community
This week, Apple unveiled its iPhone 3.0 OS and wowed the world with new APIs and the addition of basic features that other mobile phones have had for years.
What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?
Rumor has it, IBM is looking at buying Sun. No surprise that we're seeing consolidation in a down market, but will this mean consolidation in the open source space?
Vote early, vote often: Linux Foundation "We're Linux" voting begins
The Linux Foundation "We're Linux" contest is entering its final stages. This weekend, the submission phase wrapped up and now it's time for the larger community to do what it does best: Submit the work to as many eyeballs as possible to find the best entries.
Kudos to Amazon: A good first step with Kindle iPhone app
What do you call a Kindle app for the iPhone? A good start.
Linux.com goes to Linux Foundation
After a decade with VA Linux Systems OSDN Sourceforge.net, Linux.
Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictions
There's free and then there's Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that's about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.
The little Linux desktop that could: Xfce 4.6 released
One of the questions I get asked pretty frequently by non-Linux users is "why are there so many desktops?" Mac and Windows users don't have to choose between desktop environments, why should Linux users?
What makes good governance?
What do Blender, Inkscape, Drizzle, and Subversion have in common? Good governance, at least according to Dave Neary.
Addressing software freedom in cloud computing
Is the freedom torch passing from Richard Stallman to the next generation? Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy opened the Southern California Linux Expo this year with a keynote about software as a service and user freedoms.
Five things Twitter could do when it grows up
One of these days, Twitter will need to decide what it's going to be when it grows up. There's a huge microblogging community growing, but Twitter is starting to fall behind in features to other services.
On Bookworms and open source eBooks
Leave it to O'Reilly to head up open source eBooks. Bookworm, an open source platform for reading eBooks online is now in O'Reilly Labs.
Why I won't be buying the Kindle 2.0
Amazon's Kindle upgrade has left me cold, and not just because of the paltry feature updates and mild interface redesign. Once again, the online shopping giant is missing a big opportunity to make the Kindle more than a single-function dead tree replacement.
More FOSS security scare-mongering
With all the talk of open source and the Obama administration, it shouldn't come as any surprise that the scare-mongering around FOSS security is going to be close behind -- and here's part of the first wave, fresh from Ernest M. Park.