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Fedora 8 proves popular and powerful —
Nov. 14, 2007 —
It took just three days before 54,000 copies of Fedora 8, the Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported Linux distribution, were up and running. ...
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The little desktop Linux that came out of the blue —
Nov. 13, 2007 —
When a desktop Linux distribution suddenly becomes popular before even DistroWatch starts tracking it, you know you've got something special. One new Ubuntu-based distribution, gOS, has managed to capture users' attention purely by word of mouth over the Internet.
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Laptop project starts 'buy one, get one' initiative —
Nov. 13, 2007 —
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative on Nov. 12 kicked off its short-term "give one, get one" project that will send one computer to the purchaser and a second to a child in a developing nation. ...
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Novell, Dell bring SUSE Linux desktops to China —
Nov. 12, 2007 —
Promises made are promises kept. Novell announced at August's LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it would be bringing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1 to Chinese users, and that day is almost here. ...
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Vista vs. desktop Linux: One year in —
Nov. 08, 2007 —
Opinion -- After almost a year since Microsoft released Vista to manufacturing, it's time to re-evaluate it and decide if it's finally the equal of the best of the desktop Linuxes. ...
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Bumps on the road to document exchange nirvana —
Nov. 04, 2007 —
The OpenDocument Foundation has announced its plans to sever itself from participation in or further advocacy of its namesake office document format in favor of the World Wide Web Consortium's XHTML (Extensible HTML)-based Compound Document Format. ...
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Document format dispute spills into the open —
Nov. 04, 2007 —
 The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium's Compound Document Format in place of the format it was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take. ...
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Microsoft vs. Mandriva, aka Godzilla vs. Bambi —
Nov. 02, 2007 —
 Opinion -- A few days ago I was going to write up how French Linux distributor Mandriva had signed up a deal to deliver 17,000 Intel-powered Classmate PCs with a customized version of Mandriva Linux 2007, built on Mandriva Flash technology, to Nigerian schoolchildren. ...
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Multimedia-centric Linux OS adds A/V goodies —
Nov. 02, 2007 —
StartCom has updated its multimedia-oriented Linux desktop with new features targeted at audio/video fans. While it can also serve as a general purpose desktop, StartCom MultiMedia Edition version ML-5.0.6 comes preloaded with a variety of tools to hear, view, edit, mix, dub, finish, and share music and video projects, ...
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No worries: head of MEPIS Linux is fine —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 Users of the popular Linux distribution MEPIS were getting worried about the distribution's leader, who had been rather quiet lately. ...
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Linux-powered Asus Eee PC mini-laptop arrives —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 The Xandros Linux-powered "ultra-mobile PC" (UMPC) has finally arrived. One of the most eagerly awaited laptops in some time, the tiny Asus Eee PC 4G, is now available from online retailers that include Newegg and Directon. ...
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Myah OS 3.0 alpha live CD released —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 Myah OS creator Jeremiah Cheatham has issued the first preliminary release of Myah OS 3.0. The gaming- and multimedia-oriented live CD Linux offering is built with an "efficient" Xfce 4.4.1 desktop, and bundles Internet, office, graphics, development tools, and numerous other applications. ...
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Everex launches $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC at Wal-Mart —
Oct. 31, 2007 —
 Everex, a longtime personal computer vendor, has unveiled its latest PC featuring Ubuntu Linux-based open-source productivity software and Google-based Web 2.0 applications, for a mere $198.
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Itty-bitty, teeny-weeny Linux PCs —
Oct. 30, 2007 —
Analysis -- Over at our sister site LinuxDevices, we're always looking at small, embedded-Linux systems. While reviewing Freespire recently on a Mini koobox, an Apple Mini-sized system, I began to wonder, Just how small do full-featured, Linux-powered PCs come? ...
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Intel's OLPC-killer heads for Vietnamese retailers —
Oct. 29, 2007 —
 An ultra-low-cost laptop for children will be soon be available for purchase in computer stores in Vietnam. The "Hacao Classmate PC" is based on Intel's Classmate PC design, and will come pre-installed with Hacao Linux, a Vietnamese-language Linux distribution based on Puppy Linux. ...
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Where are the American Linux desktop users? —
Oct. 23, 2007 —
Linux users from around the world are filling out the Linux Foundation's desktop survey. But what John Cherry, the foundation's director of global Linux workgroups, wants to know is, "Where are the responses from the North America?" ...
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The wide world of pre-installed Ubuntu —
Oct. 19, 2007 —
 Thanks to Canonical's System Builder Program, pre-installed Ubuntu Linux PCs are available throughout the world and not just from Dell. Everyone in the Linux desktop world knows that Dell now offers Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on some of its laptops and desktops. ...
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Fallout from Office Open XML vote continues —
Oct. 19, 2007 —
The fallout from the events leading up to the recent vote on whether or not to approve Microsoft's Office Open XML documents format as an ISO standard continues unabated, more than a month after the software maker conceded it had lost that vote. ...
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Former Linspire CEO switches to Ubuntu —
Oct. 18, 2007 —
The sincerest compliment a Linux distribution can get is when the onetime CEO of a rival Linux company switches to that distribution. That’s exactly what happened when Kevin Carmony, former CEO of Linux desktop distributor Linspire, publicly announced that he’s switched to Ubuntu. ...
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