Back at work? Still looking for a good New Year's Resolution? 2009 will be an important year for FSFE, not the least because the General Assembly will see the first Fellow elected into its midst by general election among all active Fellows of FSFE. The Fellowship will also continue to play a direct role in FSFE's activities. Today is the best time to join.

I have been wanting to try out Sidux Linux for a long time. I am a fan of the Gnome desktop but it is not stable with Sidux. Then about two weeks ago, Mario Behling, introduced me to LXDE. Here are my first impressions using Sidux with LXDE.

"So if anyone knows me personally, they know I am a huge Blender head and proponent of free software, meaning free as in freedom of speech not free beer. I am especially fond of any software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License from the Free Software Foundation.

With heartfelt grief we announce the sudden death of Thiemo Seufer (ths) in a tragic car accident on December 26th.

this isn't one of those Linux Bashing posts, i'm converted, and happily use Linux both at work and home, this is a post which is explaining why i feel the world isn't ready for linux..

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.

Well, since then I've been approached by a combination of friends and family members, looking for computer help or advice. ... It's also fairly obvious, at least to me, that a modern Linux desktop is absolutely perfect in these scenarios. So, that's exactly what I suggested and in each case they took my advice.