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Ubuntu 12.04 has a number of challenges to overcome before we think it’s ready for the planned LTS release later this month. We continue our irreverent list with a few issues with calendaring…

In March Rob Weir put up a blog entry entitled “Where did the time go? (A look at the Apache OpenOffice timeline)”, showing the slow progress of Apache OpenOffice through the process of acceptance into the Apache fold. Richard Hillesley looks at the issues…

Ubuntu 12.04 has a number of challenges to overcome before we think it’s ready for the planned LTS release later this month. We kick off a irreverent list with a few gripes about Unity and the Dash…

SLES 11 SP2 adds a new kernel, support for Btrfs and LXC, and Snapper to manage snapshots and rollbacks. Koen Vervloesem explains all…

Sabayon’s Gentoo heritage might prove a difficult pill to swallow for some, but Russell Barnes explains why that definitely shouldn’t put you off Sabayon 8…

Big companies may not be able to issue software patches quickly. But they sure can change their policies in pretty much an instant, argues Simon Brew…

Jos ponders the openSUSE 12.2 releases and openSUSE upstream development for the next SUSE Linux Enterprise release…

We spend time with Eben Upton, the man at heart of the $25 computer project known as Raspberry Pi. We learn all about the hardware, the dev board pricing scandal and – amazingly – why Ubuntu doesn’t want anything to do with it. Though otherwise candid, Eban refused to be drawn on the existence of a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Raspberry Pi ‘Model C’…

Linux User sits down with Mint creator Clement Lefebvre to get a measure of the past, present and future of one of the biggest success stories in Linux distro history…

Can an operating system consisting of just a web browser, designed for public kiosk use, offer anything of use to the masses? Gareth Halfacree investigates…

Every other year there is a fresh commitment that open source solutions will be preferred for government funded projects, and that open standards will be adopted ‘wherever possible’. The logic for these decisions is well understood, but is soon forgotten when the monopoly comes calling, says Richard Hillesley…

PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD…

Contributing to the documentation of a free software project is a good route for those who want to get involved but don’t know where to start (or how to program), and want to know how it’s done. Richard Hillesley explains…

Now forked from Fedora, Fuduntu has a new release strategy, a subtle facelift and thousands of new packages to choose from…

Greg Kroah-Hartman announces bug fix release of 3.2 kernel, and reveals details for the future of Android integration with the Linux Kernel

openSUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet, wonders if putting a tax on the sharing of knowledge might limit social as well as economic growth…

Canonical have today introduced a new Head-Up Display feature due to arrive with Ubuntu 12.04. Read on for full details and video demonstration, not to mention our take on the new feature…

Have you received a suspicious PDF or Flash file lately and are you curious about the malware it contains? Then start up REMnux to analyze it, as Koen explains…

A relative newcomer to the forensic and penetration testing live CD scene, Italian project BackBox is already turning heads as it hits version 2.01. Gareth Halfacree explains why…

The rapid expansion of digital technologies, and opening up of new channels of communication and information, challenges notions of the ownership of ideas. Richard Hillesley investigates…