Don Marti attended Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linux Symposium talk on the kernel development process; he wrote an informative article (titled Linux contributor base broadens) about it. The article states:

"The overtime that some computer publications and industry pundits have been clocking to propagate FUD around GNU/Linux has grown geometrically over the last several weeks... With this in mind, below are the initial nominees for The Elmers, named after the patriarch of the FUD family."

All in all, setting up a printer was a little more geeky than what I encountered during my initial OS setup. With a more friendly (for the open sourcers out there, I’m sure you could trade out the modifier “dumb” here) interface and help documentation, the process could have been cut to 15 or so minutes, I’d guess, but there were still some legitimate hassles.

Torvalds said, “I don’t use either [Windows or Mac OS X]. OS X is kind of pointless (pretty much anything it has, Linux can do better) and Windows offers stuff that I don’t much care about (mainly games — and I’ve got games machines for those).” Before I comment on this any more than I have, let me just say that I have been a near-exclusive Linux desktop user since 2001.

One Laptop Per Child's XO (commonly referred to as the $100 laptop) is designed to change the world by bringing computing resources to children in the developing world. But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology.

During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions to free software.

An interview with Dave Wreski CEO of Guardian Digital, makers of EnGarde Secure Linux. I ask him how EnGarde came about, what makes EnGarde different and the effect if any, of the GPLv3 on the software in EnGarde. He answers all these questions and more, in The LXer Interview of Dave Wreski.

Just days after announcing the first version of Sabayon tuned to business needs including servers, the Italy-based project team has released version 3.4 of its desktop-oriented distribution, claiming "four months of hard and deep development."