"The transmediale Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2009 is awarded to theoretical and critical practice works submitted for the competition.The prize in 2009 is split between publisher and world citizen Brian Holmes for his blog Continental Drift, and the Italian programmer Denis Rojo (aka Jaromil), who is honoured not only for his TBC (Text Based Code) but also for his complete works engaged in buildi

"In case any GNU hacker is going to FOSDEM we might as well meet and chat. I’ve suggested on the gnu-prog-meetings mailinglist that we meet up and …well have a chat or a meeting..."

Hey guys! Guess what! It’s another post about how Windows is kicking the crap out of Linux! Robin Harris over at ZDNet asserts that “Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.” Wow!

Linux had its chance there for a while in netbooks, but has now been duly "kicked to the curb" by Microsoft, never to surface again. This according to Robin Harris, apparently an expert in storage, who in an amusing, penguin-baiting rant published by ZDNet, ventures his opinion on desktop Linux.

Very few Ubuntu users, at least outside of the enterprise, pay for support. Instead, they turn to various free resources, ranging from IRC channels to the documentation wiki to the official Ubuntu Forums, when they run into trouble. While free support in the Ubuntu world is often quite good, it could be improved if those providing it paid more attention to a few key guidelines.

When I spoke to him, early on the Tuesday of conference week, he still had his beard. We talked at length about the Debian GNU/Linux project - he has been a part of it since 1994, is chairman of the technical committee, and, at the time we spoke, was acting secretary.

I was in the local branch of "Currys" (UK electrical and electronic goods chain) recently and had a look at the line-up of computers. They had some little netbooks, and taped next to each one was a little note saying something to the effect of "This runs Linux, so it won't run Windows software". It was a local version of a wider story about Linux

Everyone knows that Linus Torvalds 'is a Linux' but did you know he is also a born-again gnome?