Who said it is? But it is not a rhetorical question. It is true that many to whom desktop computer is synonymous with Windows try to move curiously near Linux…
Linux enjoys all the four freedoms envisaged by GNU. You can freely use it, modify it (since you have its source code freely available) and redistribute it as modified with…
I made a presentation on WordPress at FOSSCONF – the Conference of Free and Open Source Software conducted by Indian Linux Users’ Group Chennai and NRC-FOSS at Chennai, India on…
Yes. And the initial run of the Linux-based 10,000 units have been sold out in Wal-Mart! Everex’s TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop PC. The spec of the…
Recently, a deal with the Nigerian government to install and use Mandriva Linux on 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs got derailed when the government decided to overwrite the installed operating system…
Here are some “snafus” and intentional monkeying by the ultimate boogeyman of computer world, Microsoft of Windows, as reported by Robert X. Cringely in his latest column: Windows Update automatically…