" Pre-Intro about the resurrection of this tutorial: This page is the resurrection of the original 'Emacs language mode creation tutorial' that once upon a time lived at... I resurrected it via archive.org and updated most of the outdated links, especially the ones into the emacs lisp manual. So everything after this Pre-Intro is originally written by Scott Andrew Borton, modulo bugfixes.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, wants desktop Linux to "shoot beyond the Mac." Can it?

Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, talked with O'Reilly News at OSCON, the O'Reilly open source convention.

"... Apple is in violation of the software’s licence for distributing these GPL applications through the App Store in the first place. I guess those silly hippies at the Free Software Foundation were right."

I was impressed by the work Fortify did in raising concerns about the security process among open source application developers. But did it really call for a FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) flood, questioning the whole premise of open source?

In case you have read our articles, you know that I’ve been doing plenty of distro hopping recently. The freedom of choice is one thing that Linux fans often boast about – you can choose in between hundreds of Linux distributions, a number of desktop environments and so on.

If you are Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds, it is totally understandable to have an ego the size of the biggest planet. The two has been known to make comments that will forever keep the geek pride alive. If you want proof, just read the following quotes from Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, and be the judge of who has a bigger ego between them.

If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.