In order to sell some products, Symantec spreads GNU/Linux fear based on misinformation

Your editor recently had cause to dig around in the cpuidle subsystem. It never makes sense to let such work go to only a single purpose when it could be applied toward the creation of a kernel-page article. So, what follows is a multi-level discussion of cpuidle, what it's for, and how it works. Doing nothing, it turns out, is more complicated than one might think.

Richard Stallman recommends reduced exposure to Hollywood's so-called "premium content", which increasingly excludes or punishes users of Free software like GNU/Linux

The Fedora community has selected the name Laughlin for Fedora 14, the version of Fedora that will be developed after Fedora 13 which is now in release candidate phase

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. New release includes a ton of bug fixes, some new features, and a fix for a security issue.

Right now you have multiple desktops but only from the applications point of view: you can move applications from one desktop to another and that's it. There is currently a mockup posted @ Gnome Shell Design Playground website (and a lot of discussion about it on the Gnome Shell mailing list) which seems very interesting:

A second beta of Python 2.7 has been released with numerous issues resolved. The final version is due in June

It probably now sounds like a cliche, but the Lucid Lynx is the best release Canonical has come out with since its inception. The following 5 lessons can be gleaned from the overwhelming success of Ubuntu 10.04.