"...despite itself, the 'Linux' community needs us in the Free Software community to remind them of what's really at stake. It riles people up when I openly criticize Linux. I honestly couldn't care less about the kernel, nor the Unix design in general. My main focus is on control, ensuring that the user remains in control of their machine and their data..."

With Lenovo's recent announcement that they will be launching their own UMPC, running either Linux or Windows, a potential opportunity for Linux's UMPC success to vastly expand has just appeared.

The Linux Foundation has had several public meetings before, but they were really only for Linux developers and their best friends. Now, the Foundation is holding one for end-users: the Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit.

"@mlinksva just put out a great slide show, albeit the over-use of bullet points ;), that is an overview of CC as well as a general look at the historical trajectories of Free Software and how Free Culture Movement is approximately 10 years behind.

A report by the Standish Group indicates that adoption of ‘open source’ has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year.

"Some websites need to handle data securely and assure the end-user they are a) secure and b) who they say they are. The traditional way to achieve these is via Secure Socket Layer. Firefox 3 changed what happens when a self-signed SSL certificate is encountered. It’s a change which has caused some concern and much discussion.

Desktop Linux Distribution is getting fame in every day use among home users and even office users. Given the choice to select from a huge list of Desktop Linux Distributions home users are ought to get confused and it’s not unusual that they do distro-hopping in the quest of what is so called "the best" for them.