It has been argued both ways for years. Both sides have valid points, and experience varies so widely depending on so many factors that it seems impossible to come to a conclusion.

The jury verdict last Friday in favor of Red Hat and Novell in a case based on bad software patents owned by "non-practicing entities" is an important victory for the open source community.

You can set up checks for you Ubuntu server in many areas including checking that the IMAP server is responding correctly to connections. These plugins are easy to configure and provide assurance that your Mail Delivery Agent is up and working.

There have been reports on the Linux newswires recently of dissatisfied Ubuntu users leaving for one reason or another. I’m not going to jump on that bandwagon here, but instead just point out that in any community, especially an immature one, this is bound to happen. My message is to those who are leaving — you should put Debian at the top of your list of distros to try.

I, Craig A. Eddy (aka tyche) hereby tender my resignation from Ubuntu effective May 15, 2010. A situation has developed with some applications, over the last 3 or 4 releases of Ubuntu, that affect me (one of them severely). Despite numerous attempts to find a resolution to this I find that it continues to be a problem.

boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO) is one of the unique features in Fedora. This effort by Fedora community hopes to completely remove DVD installations in long term.

KDE PIM developers are working hard to get a personal information management stack based on KDE and Akonadi onto Maemo/MeeGo devices with the benefits and features that Kontact and the rest of KDE PIM brings desktop users today in stable versions of KDE PIM.

"...Main features of the new release include downloading of remote packages (for projects hosted on smalltalk.gnu.org), a new browser based on GTK+, a callgraph profiler and incremental garbage collection. This version can also run the Iliad web framework..."