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With the proposal that Wine be included in Ubuntu's main repository, it is important to remember that the most important part is how it is integrated into the rest of the system.

For some time, Adobe AIR has looked like a promising way to make applications inherently cross-platform. The problem is, it was never open-source or open in any way and there was never any good alternative. Now Appcelerator Titanium has come and changed that.

For many Linux users, Linux in education just seems natural. Unfortunately, not everyone sees it that way. What would you like to see happen to bring Linux into schools?

With the end of the year approaching fast, it is easy to look back, but hard to look forward. The question, though, is not what will happen, but what you want to happen in this coming year? What would you like to see happen to Linux in 2009?

The new Automated Shopper, announced today by Google, is supposed to pick out who to give gifts to, how much to spend on each person, and what to get them.

Windows users are easily pranked with fake error messages, but what if you want to confuse your Linux-using friend?

With everyone thinking about what they are thankful for, here are some things not to be thankful for.

Today Sun announced StarOffice 9, their commercial office suite based on OpenOffice. Read the review to find out how good it is.

Over the past few releases, Ubuntu has over promised and under delivered. Have you noticed that that radical new look promised in Ubuntu 8.04 still has not come? This un-delivered promise and others have made people lose confidence in what Ubuntu can do.

Microsoft has announced they will be launching an online version of Microsoft Office. While their intention is certainly not to port Office to Linux, that will likely be the effect of putting it online. The question is: what effect will this have on Linux?

The Free Software Foundation has been promoting a list of "high priority" free software projects, but are these projects really the highest priority project?

In a shocking revelation today, millions of Chrome fanboys across the web have realized that Google has not yet lost interest in their one month old browser.

Much is said about how open-source and Linux can be used to combat poverty, but few speak of the remaining issues, technical, educational, or perceptional, that still exist.

For various reasons, not everything is configured in the easiest way for a new user. Because of this, some simple and quick modifications can make the life of a new Ubuntu user much easier.

Unboxing pictures of the Dell XPS M1530 pre-installed with Ubuntu. I just recieved my new laptop: a Dell XPS M1530 pre-installed with Ubuntu. I plan on doing 7 posts related to the M1530. I will not, however, be doing them all in a row, so don’t worry. Anyway, today I have some unboxing pictures for you.

Apple picked a bad time to be fighting angry developers about how closed their system is. After all, Android, a completely open platform, just launched.

Over the course of OOXML's approval process, many reasons why OOXML should not be approved have been brought up, but the best reason for OOXML to die is so that we can finally standardize on one format.

A while ago, Apple sold heavily discounted Macs to schools, hoping to get students to choose the Mac. Obviously, the same technique will not work for Linux, but it is important to get students interested in Linux.

The most frequently cited market share numbers for Linux are less than 1%, but those numbers are no better than any others, just better publicized. Other pieces of information show Linux's share much higher.

It used to be that if you wanted Linux, it was least expensive to buy Windows pre-installed and replace it with Linux. Now, at least on some notebooks, if you want Windows, it is cheaper to buy Linux and install a retail copy of Vista.