When people are talking about "The year of Linux Desktop", it seems that there is a large crowd with no knowledge of Linux. People who use computers for a long time also replied the same thing when I talked about Linux with them. This screenshot shows the reply from an user when someone posted a reply in a form with a reference to 'Linux'

Famous Personalities of Computer Science
I am trying to collect photos of Famous Personalities of Computer Science.
Charles Babbage (Father of Computer), Blaise Pascal (Father of Programming Language), Alan Turing ( Father of Computer Science)
Claude E Shannon (Father of Information Theory).... and more

Buy Ubuntu, pay Microsoft
This was probably inevitable. I first brought it up here and Mark Shuttleworth soon replied, refusing to refute the speculation. So, Canonical will be paying Microsoft indirectly (for codecs).

My mother and father are still using PCLinuxOS as I'm typing this post. Now I'm going to answer a few questions that I have been asked by friends and other family members.

4Linux in Brazil has a live podcast show and the next theme is Microsoft, Open Source and "interoperability" with OpenXML. A Microsoft representative will be there. You can presend the show questions to ask Microsoft's representative. Some of the questions will be read and answered in English. And after the live feed, there will be an English translation available

There are some important questions regarding OOXML’s upcoming ISO bid that Microsoft cannot answer or just simply won’t. From 25-29 February 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland, the ISO community will hold a Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) of the National Boards to discuss and vote finally on OOXML as an ISO standard. This article raises questions that Microsoft should answer to the satisfaction of the ISO community as part of the deliberation leading up to the BRM vote.

Guess why Microsoft suddenly decided it wanted to be more interoperable? It's so it can get customers to quit using Linux and switch to Windows & .NET.

I have discovered that one of the most powerful avenues of learning is the ability to ask questions. When people can ask questions learning occurs. Why is asking questions so important? Well it is the old agony of getting stuck on one small thing.

At the Linux Collaboration Summit, Microsoft platform strategist Sam Ramji faced some tough questions during a panel about operating systems. He argued that Microsoft doesn't oppose open source software and that collaboration with the open source software community represents an opportunity for Microsoft.