"A conflict is brewing because Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu free software GNU/Linux desktop, is using the name for a non-free network as well, i.e. UbuntoOne..."

The 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09) will take place June 14-19, 2009, in San Diego, CA.

While Italian generic newspapers desperately advertise Windows 7 as a good alternative to Linux (yeah, right, who switches to what ?), Microsoft shoots itself in the foot by imposing limits on the hardware a Netbook can use to ship Windows. No wonder they found themselves sucking the socks of Canonical

Finally the OS juggling games can stop and we can just have Ubuntu and Windows options on all of Dell's computers from now on. Well, all of their netbooks, that is. One of the most annoying things about Dell is their seemingly random decisions about what computers are going to be offered with what OS. Apparently, though, Dell realized how annoying this was.

I'm not a very good Linux evangelist. I don't try and convert family and friends to Linux. Therefore, as surprising as it sounds, putting Ubuntu on my dad's new laptop--as I did a week ago--was the first time I've ever directly converted another individual to Linux.

If you don't like the taste of Free Beer, then you may try OpenCola, the Free and Open Source cola. This cola is so unique in the sense that the full instructions for making it are completely available and modifiable. So anyone can create the drink and change the recipe as long as it is licensed under GNU GPL.

So you say you like Linux. You say you have tried it and it is very good. You say it looks good, it is fast and your grandmother can use it. But you don't use it. Why is that?