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While the ultra-closed nature of their devices is a major reason why I don’t personally use Apple products, it is their recent litigation against competing open-source products that really gets my goat.

Apple limits the kind of third-party applications and content their users can enjoy. But what does it really mean in practice? Let's look at 5 Android apps iOS is missing to find out.

Mephisto Backups key feature is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC.

In the important realm of science, technology and ideas, I believe that the continual conversion of ideas and development effort into the private property of companies like Apple is a great threat to continued free innovation.

Android users often ask if there is an iTunes like app for synching their music to their Android phone. The answer is yes, and, on Linux, Banshee is the best choice.

When people first think of getting audiobooks online, they probably think of Audible. But, Audible has one really big problem: DRM (Digital Rights Management). Do not despair, though, there are some really great options for DRM free audiobooks that work great on Linux and Android. Meet EMusic and LibriVox.

It is no secret that the equation editor in OpenOffice sucks (well, there are a few folks out there that think it is great, but not many). What I always wanted was an equation editor of OpenOffice that used Latex as the backend. Then, I found it, and boy is it awesome: Ekee.

Over the past few years, Ubuntu has emerged as the champion among Linux distros. However, its standing is now under attack on multiple fronts. Windows 7 is attacking from the right, Android is attacking from the left and now Google has sent another attack right up the center: Chrome-OS.

Even if you don’t want to replicate the mac, or if you think compiz is more useless than it is functional (how dare you!?), you might still be interested in replacing one of the two Gnome taskbars with a dock. Here is my dating history with the docks of Linux land.

Got a lot of music / videos you need to keep organized? Got Mythbox and a remote? Want to add web-content to that box? Check out these three Linux Media Centers.

Installing any OS can still sometimes be a tedious task and one that scares the wits out of the average computer user. And, it’s just more fun to buy a computer with Linux already on it and not have to pay the Microsoft tax. You can find Linux servers sold all sort of places, but where can you find Linux desktops for sale? Here is a list.

This program can do simple backups and syncs over a network or locally.It uses tar and rsync in the background. Mephisto Backup was made with the Java programming language. The key feature of this program is the ability to backup your system to an image and copy it to a Linux Live DVD for future restoration. The user can then take that cd and move his or her system to any PC.

Get your RSS feed readers ready because here is my list of the best sites/feeds to stay in touch with the latest developments in the linux community. This is the short list — there are many personal/professional blogs/sites that should be included in a full list. But, most of them are aggregated in the following sites.

Hitslink.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 1% for the first time ever. Shown is a plot of the linux market share for the past several years based on hitslinks’ stats.