Two years ago, Bob Frankston wrote Why Settle for Just 1%? while in the midst of his ramp-up as a Verizon FiOS customer. The question is still on the table. I'd like us to help answer it by re-phrasing the question: What could we, as Linux developers and users, do with fiber to our homes and businesses?

Web graphics designers running GNU/Linux seem to use the Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop in a virtual environment. I have found the feature rich Xara Xtreme to be a good alternative for web graphics creation and editing. It is open source and you can download it here.

"Here's a simple decoder for BitTorrent's torrent encoding format, bencode. This uses the iterator-based approach from Simple Iterator-based Parsing, which results in readable and pretty efficient code."

Nothing. This is what we know about the so-called Red Hat Global Desktop, except that "it delivers a modern-user experience with an enterprise-class suite of productivity applications" and that it's supposed to be installed "on Intel's white box partners' PCs ... primarily aimed at small businesses and governments in emerging countries"

Compiere has been in serious upgrade mode lately. It has been tweaking its business model, changing its management team (and adding an experienced CEO in enterprise software), and improving its community focus. I admit that I've been thinking that Compiere had missed its window of opportunity, but it feels like the company is on the right track.

If you’ve been following Linux kernel news then you’ve probably heard about the new Completely Fair Scheduler that has been merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel release. I decided to do a bit of research into how the current Linux scheduler works, and what makes the new scheduling algorithm so interesting. Here’s what I learned.

As expected, Warren Woodford of MEPIS Linux has announced that the next version of SimplyMEPIS 6.9.51 will be based on Debian Linux instead of Ubuntu.