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"PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), FireFox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens."

In this roundup: ZTE's Firefox OS phone is perfect for hunting season! Plus: Metro Last Light comes to Linux, and Netrunner 13.06 protects your privacy and fights censorship!

Review of Today in Open Source: Run Windows apps with CrossOver 12.5 or Wine? Plus: System Shock 2 for Linux, and Chromium replaces Firefox in Ubuntu...but not right away

In this roundup of Today in Open Source: Is Android better than iOS? Plus: How to run Linux on your Windows computer, and a Pennsylvania school district embraces open source solutions

LinuxBSDos.com has a disheartening article about a developer that stopped using Linux, and moved over to OS X. He has, in effect, also given up control of his computing experience to Apple. In and of itself, that's not necessarily a bad thing if it works for you. But let's face it, Apple is not perfect, anymore than Microsoft is perfect.It raises an interesting question: How many people stop using Linux and go back to Windows or move to OS X?

Today in Open Source: Giant Android phones. Plus: Strike Suit Zero released for Linux, and is Apache the most important open source project?

Today in Open Source: An Ubuntu-based sport utility laptop. Plus: Open source satellites and voting machines!

Today in Open Source: The blink tag is no more in Firefox. Plus: SparkyLinux 3.0 GameOver, and Android malware rates surge!

There's an interesting story on CNet today about Android gaining market share in tablets in the second quarter. On the surface it looks like Android is beginning to eat Apple's lunch. But is that really true?

Microsoft has cut the prices of its Surface Pro tablet by $100. This comes after Microsoft already cut prices of its Surface RT product significantly in a desperate and feeble attempt to spur sales.

Today in Open Source: The five best Ubuntu spins! Plus: Twenty five free intelligent Android games, and eight apps for Linux system administrators

Today in Open Source: Your first Linux distro? Plus: Mark Shuttleworth and desktop Linux, and WordPress 3.6 is out!

There's a neat new project devoted to running OS X applications in Linux. It's called Darling, and it reminds me of Wine. Wine, as you probably already know, lets Linux users run Windows applications. How does Darling work?

Here's how you can install the Intel Linux Graphics 1.02 in Ubuntu 13.04.

Here's how you can install the Intel Linux Graphics 1.02 in Fedora 19.

Here's how you can install the VLC 2.08 video player in Linux Mint 15.

Today in Open Source: Ubuntu Edge fundraising stalled? Plus: Gnash flash payer stuck, and the state of the Linux desktop

Control Center is a free app for Android that strongly resembles the control center in Apple's iOS 7 operating system. If you like the way iOS 7's control center looks, then you'll like having something like it on your Android device.

Apple Insider has a fascinating article that explores the possibility of Google dumping Android for Chrome OS. You might at first thing this is a crazy notion, given the popularity of Android phones in particular. However, it's not as far fetched a notion as it might seem initially.

Linux has so much to offer, with little or no cost. There really isn't any proprietary software that can come close to it in terms of value versus cost. And yet the use of Linux is not restricted to just poorer countries. The article also notes that the US military is the largest user of Red Hat Linux.