Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly.

At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit, there were three sessions held to discuss the future of the Ubuntu Women project. It was Friday afternoon, the last day of an intense week, and the energy level was fairly low. The focus seemed to be on reviewing the group’s objectives and agreeing who would take the next steps.

I took a few minutes to chat with Jonathan Thomas, creator and all round nice guy from OpenShot (better known as “iMovie for Linux” around these parts!), to find out what the application is up to, what their plans are for the future and when we can expect a stable release…

I recently setup a new computer for a friend, who’s win98 computer had broken some time ago. Purchased a really cheap new PC. Now, I had the difficult call to make, as to Mandriva or Ubuntu.

Google, as expected, has taken its Chrome OS effort and offered it up as an open source project called Chromium OS. As you may recall Chrome OS will target netbooks and other thin mobile devices - core markets that  Canonical is pursuing with Ubuntu. Should Canonical be worried?

Where technical merits are considered rather than marketing and consumerism, GNU/Linux crushes the competition and continues to gain

Since the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution kicked off five years ago, it has been churning out release after release every six months.