Last year, the inaugural We’re Linux video contest kicked off a storm of creativity and captured the spirit of Linux and the diversity of its community. The winning video “What Does it Mean to Be Free” was an inspirational piece that communicated the ideals of the open source operating system.

Linux users are known for being a somewhat finicky lot. It's therefore somewhat telling that Linux users overwhelmingly choose Google as their preferred search engine, according to data released today by Chitika.

I love Suse - 412,000
I love Fedora - 1,180,000
I love Uubntu -
I love OS X -

"It was a dark and stormy night... Well, not really, but that's how all the classics start, isn't it? This one begins with that most fearsome of technological bugs -- user error. Fortunately the perpetrator (that's me, btw) redeems himself, and his data, in the end all thanks to the friendly penguin. I suppose then, this is really a love story."

Being a web developer I have often wondered how one would go about making a search engine. I have looked for some tutorials to help me out with some of the algorithms, but off course I didn't find much since the search engine technology is worth A LOT (GOOGLE!).

Many people in this world might have written a lot on linux. Now its my turn. And why not, it is really a wonderful operating system stable, secure and also free ;-). I got a taste of unix when i was in Aptech and when i was in NCST, Banglore i worked for one whole year on linux. I even did coding on vi editor. Not only me but most of my batchmates love linux. So here goes my story.

Bhartiya writes: For ages I have been convincing people to switch from close source to open source, from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. I have been telling people to ditch the controversial docx format and adopt .odt only to find myself in an embarrassing situation, thanks to Google.

I love the illustration for a Linux Haxor story, Obligatory Year-End Positive Linux Predictions. It features Bart Simpson at the school blackboard, which is covered with "Year of the Linux desktop." I understand all too well how people can tire of endless predictions that this (fill-in-the-blank) year will be the year of the Linux desktop. There's only one problem with all these predictions.

Linux Foundation Announces 2010 “We’re Linux” Video Contest: The Linux Super Bowl Ad. “We’re Linux” returns for the second year in a row, aims to surface creative user-generated ads for the popular operating system