Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley believes Linux desktop environments need a dose of open source ingenuity rather than ape ideas from Windows and OS X. Bottomley, who also wears the hat of Director of the Linux Foundation and chair of its technical advisory board, says the next challenge for Linux as a whole is to take the lead in interface advancements.

Brian Proffitt over at LinuxToday posted a rebuke of an InfoWorld troll experiment in which a writer purposefully tried to incite an entity known as the "Linux community" to attack him.

The Linux Foundation today announced that LG Electronics is its newest member. LG will participate in the Linux Foundation’s events and community development efforts.

Brian Proffitt, former Managing Editor of LinuxToday, looks at the amounts of money Novell extracts from SUSE users for Microsoft and Novell to share

Brian Proffitt recently tackled the topic of distro-hopping over on LinuxPlanet. Proffitt wonders whether the practice might be passe or something to be discouraged, but it's here to stay and should be encouraged rather than looked at askew. Distro-hopping, if you're not familiar with the term, is the practice of switching Linux distributions.

I've just read the post by Brian Proffitt, regarding Microsoft's tactics in Africa. I have something to say to Brian:

Not everything a big corporation does is illegal. Yes, even Microsoft does most of its business in completely legitimate way. Now, you argue, that Microsoft has to "help" people choose its products?

Brian Proffitt: So far, the response to the new Linux.com has been really positive and, save for a few glitches here and there, we've been very happy with how the launch has gone thus far. As we transition from launch mode to operations mode, it's worth taking a little time to reflect on what we're going to be doing on Linux.com.

Brian Cameron is the soft-spoken Secretary of the Gnome Foundation. In this interview he talks about the Gnome foundation and how it works with corporates like Nokia, Oracle, and Canonical on the one hand, and the community on the other.

Kernel hacker Ted Ts'o has joined the Linux Foundation as Chief Platform Strategist. He says,"I'm looking forward to continuing the LSB [Linux Standards Base] and other Linux Foundation initiatives to make the Linux platform even more competitive to the benefit of the entire Linux community."