Dear Joost website, I wanted to let you know that Joost sucks because: We only have Ubuntu, Edubuntu, PCLOS, and Fedora Linux in our home.

Ubuntu is an open-source operating system which aims for ease of use. The BBC's George Wright and Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon offered to install the OS on a laptop for Ashley to take home and experiment with.

A recent phenomenon as of late that has appeared on the Linux scene is what I like to call "designer Linux distributions." These are distributions custom tailored to a specific piece of hardware. These have existed in one form or another for years, but have only recently begun to become a problem.

It’s the start of the Ubuntu Developer Week! So what’s going on later today?

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:

Linux is awsome, and i definitely recommend everyone to try it. I have already convinced a couple of my friends to give it a try.

We've heard it year after year: *this* is the year when Linux pulls ahead and becomes a real force.. Well, maybe. Certainly low priced Linux boxes have been snapped up quickly whenever they have been offered, and it's certainly true that the general public grumbles more about Microsoft than they used to. I think it's even common wisdom now to avoid Vista when buying a new computer, but so far that's translated more to "ask for XP" rather than trying anything else.

Web 2.0 was marked by web-based applications. But the major limitation to all these services is that they existed solely in the realm of the Internet, and data was stored on somebody else's servers.The introduction of Ajax RE's is poised to change all that, allowing coders to write applications using existing technologies to merge the desktop with the web.