I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 We’re Linux Video Contest. We had quite a few amazing videos to choose from, many of which captured the spirit of Linux.

On April 15 2010, PBS NewsHour ran a segment talking about the open source model and a few FLOSS-geeks from Washington, DC (maco and myself included) are featured near the end of the segment.

Despite having recently been cast as the villain of the piece by some high profile members of the Free and Open Source Software community, IBM has just revealed itself as actually being something of a crime-fighting superhero.

The last quartile of the 20th century was marked by a rise in software development by companies, individuals and hobbyist groups. Key among software development methodologies was a controversial yet innovative idea about giving away your software code for others to use and improve upon it.

The phrase "you’re the man!" leads to a little debate about sexism in SUSE

Linux is very popular in cloud initiatives. It functions very well in a headless environment, and the licensing model means that customers don't have to count how many machines are running.

The Linux kernel panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is usually a glimpse into Linux's future, but this time it was also a reflection on how far Linux has come and how its leadership is growing older.

Sam Varghese is a columnist for the IT Wire website who likes Ubuntu and apparently has great respect for Mark Shuttleworth. He writes opinion pieces that I often disagree with but he most certainly is entitled to his opinion. He has now, on three separate occasions this year, written pieces which are harshly critical of Ubuntu's detractors.