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My new favorite peice of Linux-related satire. This is even better than the Shelley the Republican bit.
Better because this thing has an actual implementation, complete with a license server (that always returns ‘FAIL’, naturally).
so go on, get the Linux Genuine Advantage today!

Random Abyss has an article on the Top 5 Linux On Laptop Myths. Good information there for anyone considering loading Linux on their new laptop. Most interesting to me was the bit about Dell’s warranty:
If you buy a Dell notebook and run Linux on it, does Dell’s hardware warranty still apply? Absolutely. You’ll need to [...]

Linux Watch, always on top of things, has a piece on the Open Letter to the Community from Novell that was released yesterday in response to the growing brouhaha over the Microsoft/Novell agreement. Not wasting time, the letter states:
“Our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual [...]

I live not far from Newham Borough in London, so I was interested to here that Microsoft and the Newham Council have signed a ten year agreement - worth at least £5m - making Microsoft the council’s software provider of choice, based on the strength of a CapGemini report.
I became even more intrigued when Microsoft [...]

Open source trickle-down by ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn — It is possible to build a credible office PC out of Linux, Open Office and Firefox, but only if you’re a sophisticated user. You lose access to content on proprietary platforms, you may have (or fear you may have) trouble communicating with business partners. It’s a [...]

Microsoft has brought their Get The Facts campaign off of it’s Summer hiatus, with a Mercer Management Consulting study that claims, among other things, that
…businesses that choose Linux over Windows for their UNIX migrations tend to be less rigorous in how they ascertain potential TCO savings.
Betanews has an excellent writeup of the paper if you [...]

Here is the normal evolution of a “discussion” about Linux on any personal or technology blog:

Blogger posts less-than-glowing review his (failed ) attempt to use a commercial Linux distribution to do his job, claiming that “ I have too much actual work to do to find any pleasure in the challenge of building a race [...]

Personally, I think one of the coolest things about Linux distributions is the concept of a “live CD”. Basically, a live CD is a complete, functional Linux distribution on a CD-ROM. The great thing about Live CDs is that they don’t install anything on your machine, they work solely from the CD and your computers [...]

Linux is often said to be based on the UNIX philosophy. What exactly does that mean, and why should I care?
Basically, the UNIX philosophy is that one-size-fts-all doesn’t work when it comes to computer programs, and therefore, every program should be as small as possible - it should only do one thing, and do it [...]

GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java by ZDNet’s David Berlind — Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk’s James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 (Debian Conference) in [...]

Linux distributions come in a wide variety of default security models. Some, such as MEPIS and Xandros come pretty much wide open, with about the same levels of security as your average OS X or Windows installation. Others, such as Fedora and Debian which, along with Gentoo, offers seperate “hardened” versions) come lightly secured out [...]

This has been a huge FUD-fest for the last eighteen months or so. First came the “Linux is now more secure than it was previously” story, which was followed quickly by some classic Microsoft FUD in the form of one Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy for Microsoft in the UK, has been [...]