Mozilla Drumbeat and the Shuttleworth Foundation have announced a joint fellowship focused on ‘education for the open web’. The Mozilla Foundation's Mark Surman says that the aim of the fellowship is to find someone with "fresh ideas on how open learning and the open web intertwine"

I was quite surprised this morning whilst reading my RSS feeds to discover that Ubuntu has named their most recent ‘lite desktop‘ Unity. Surprised because we have our project, Unity Linux. Strange that both our ‘lightweight distribution and desktop’ and Ubuntu’s ‘lite desktop’ should share a name together.

In an attempt to copycat Apple's hardware-plus-software vertical approach to the mobile market, the Linux industry is fragmenting fast and risks undermining its best chance for beating the iPhone.

What was amazing, is that as well written as the article was, the first responder, Gavin, reminded me of one problem within the community itself. Dogma. Instead of just admitting a failure in Linux, the responder unleashed a torrent of freediot-style emotional responses such as "Well, heck, it is not like Windows has a great history lately with its audio stack, either!

A few weeks ago, we took a look at how Ubuntu use varied by country.  I'm still on a bit of a demographic kick, so I decided to do some research on another pertinent topic: the median age of Ubuntu users.  Here's what I found.

Elizabeth shares what she learned at the 4th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the Open Source Business Conference about emerging best practices for contributing to FOSS. Namely, openly engage and work with the community.

I think games, as in video games for computing systems, should not be held up to the same standards of FOSS freedom as other kinds of software.

I had a lot of time available to myself over the past week. Some of that time was spent distro-hopping. Here are a few of the distros and tools I had the chance to experiment with.