Think about revolutions and minute-men. Think about angry libertarians. And after that, think of the settlers of the wild frontier. Because at this time in history, that's just what Linux is: the Wild, Wild West.

"W3C Director and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee will deliver a keynote, "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the Mobile Web with Open Standards" at Mobile Internet World, 13-15 November at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, USA..."

I've used Ubuntu Linux now for the better part of a year; there have been some stumbles along the way, but for the most part, I'm sold.

It is not uncommon for those who write about Linux or other FOSS software to be inundated with feedback from users. At times that feedback is a bit unbalanced, a trifle raw and, occasionally, plain silly.

It's been a good few weeks for distro releases with Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva all releasing new versions but which ones best? The LUGRadio team talk to Adam Williamson from Mandriva then don asbestos suits and put all four through a series of real world tests. Find out which came out best and which to avoid like the plague.

Basically, they [(Microsoft)] move, we rant, they win. It's done through an interesting bit of social engineering that turns our anger at them and their antics into into a tool to turn away potential Linux and OSS converts and guide them back to the Microsoft sheep fold.

The only problem is that it's really more of a Google network PC that could easily be run on hardware that costs significantly less than $199.

Give One Get One initiative. T-Mobile is offering one year of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot access to people who donate an XO laptop to a child in a developing country through the campaign.