The unfortunate experience that I have sometimes encountered when attempting to purchase a 'new' computer pre-installed with Linux, is that it can sometimes be more expensive than Windows

The Linux Foundation rolls out some new member benefits this week, along with a membership classification just for students. Though there were already a ton of cool membership perks to begin wtih, new access to employee purchase pricing on products from HP, Dell, and Lenovo is a really terrific addition to the list.

Bradley Kuhn explains why negative messages are not always detrimental to progress

It was exactly one year ago today that I published my original "The 10 Best Linux Distributions" and it's time to put forth a new list for this year's best. Without looking at the old list, I've decided to compile this one from scratch.

It may come as no surprise to some that GNU founder Richard Stallman has launched a stinging attack on Microsoft's open source motives with its Codeplex Foundation

I’d like to say that I see Gentoo as a distribution that should allow me to easily use my computer whilst keeping configuration as flexible as possible. Of course with customisation we often get a tradeoff in usability, but nevertheless there are a couple areas where this tradeoff shouldn’t occur...

For the last decade, I've regularly seen complaints when we harder-core software freedom advocates spend some time criticizing proprietary software in addition to our normal work preserving, protecting and promoting software freedom.

The "Windows 7 Sins" campaign reaches charities and NGOs across the world