Linux users from around the world are filling out the Linux Foundation's desktop survey. But what John Cherry, the foundation's director of global Linux workgroups, wants to know is, "Where are the responses from the North America?"

If the battle between computer operating systems was won or lost on the basis of which has the cutest name, Ubuntu would surely reign supreme.

I know it is not so nice to complain and bash a project when you don't contribute to it. And yes until now, I did not contributed to the KDE4 desktop as I wished. I compiled it regularly and used the libraries, but did not run the KDE4 desktop or KDE4 version of the applications except KDevelop and Quanta.

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released today. I haven’t tested any alpha or beta versions of the new product from Canonical. I have decided to wait for the Release Candidate, since this has proved to work for me in the past. In short: it did not disappoint me. The new Ubuntu is more polished, more professional and in general, better than the previous one, which was already a great OS.

"Australian developers extend the capabilities of the OpenMoko, the world's first non-proprietary Linux powered mobile phone."

Once again, the Linux Foundation Desktop Linux (DTL) workgroup is polling users to find out what desktop Linux really needs. While the foundation folks conduct the poll (and I'd encourage Linux Magazine readers to participate), let me share my top three priorities for the Linux desktop in 2008: Applications, multimedia, and polish.

This guy details 10 things he misses from Mac OS X when using Ubuntu. The funny thing is the Ubuntu community stroll tight in and set him straight in the comments. Everything he's missing is available.

"Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages.