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The Trouble With Mandriva February 09, 2012 
Now that Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Mint are enjoying such widespread attention and success, it's increasingly difficult to remember that not all distros are sharing in the same good fortune. Take Mandriva, for example. This venerable distro dates back to 1998, when it was born as Mandrake Linux, but its last few years have been tempestuous.
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Amazon May Be Going Small With Retail Boutique Experiment February 07, 2012 
Amazon is planning to launch a retail store in Seattle in the coming months, according to reports published by Bloomberg and Good E-Reader. The endeavor is meant to serve as a pilot project for a possible chain of stores that would sell Amazon Exclusive books, as well as its Kindle Fire tablet, line of e-readers, and related accessories.
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Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back? January 30, 2012 
Some of us here in the Linux blogosphere may have hoped for a quieter 2012 than 2011 turned out to be, but so far at least, it doesn't look like we're getting our wish. January appears to have started the year off with a bang. Do we get a little break now that it's the end of the month? No, we don't, thanks to the arrival of Ubuntu's "HUD."
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Mint With Cinnamon: A New Sweet Spot for Desktop Linux? January 12, 2012 
Well CES is nearing its conclusion for another year, winding down an event that may well have brought Linux more mainstream attention than any other in the show's four-decades-long history. Ubuntu had its share of the limelight, but it's another Linux distro entirely that's captured many bloggers' attention. Linux Mint, that is -- and its tantalizing new desktop environment, Cinnamon.
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Oracle Makes Bold, Risky Move With Big Data Appliance Launch January 11, 2012 
Oracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which it announced last year at Oracle OpenWorld. With no release date promised, the industry was surprised by its relative speed to market. Less surprising was Oracle's enlistment of Cloudera -- the leading provider of Hadoop system management tools -- to provide an Apache Hadoop distribution and tools for the appliance.
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All Eyes on Ubuntu as CES Draws Near January 09, 2012 
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious," a very wise man once said, and that's surely as true in the tech world as it is in the rest of life. Maybe that's why so many have been so intrigued by Canonical's cryptic announcement last week about its plans for this week's CES event.
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Linux Mint Is a Refreshing Palate Cleanser November 23, 2011 
The Linux community and Linux users are at odds over the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 as the backbone desktop environment for the OS. Ubuntu's developers muddied the situation with its newcomer Unity desktop alternative. Given the situation, Linux Mint may offer the best solution if you need time to adjust to the radical changes in the GNOME 3 desktop.
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Open Source and the Open Road, Part 1 November 22, 2011 
A new wave of really cool devices will soon do more than simply integrate your mobile gadgets with your automobile. Pairing your smartphone with your car's sound system and on-board navigation platform is already old hat. Car makers are now looking at how to expand that concept to enhance the notion of your car being treated as one big mobile device.
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Will a Spoonful of Mint Help the GNOME 3 Go Down? November 14, 2011 
If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, as Mary Poppins once sagely said, will a splash of Mint help users swallow GNOME 3? That, indeed, appears to be the question of the day now that the Linux Mint project has announced a hybrid desktop strategy for Linux Mint 12 that's apparently designed to help ease users into the controversial new interface.
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One More Time: Is It Really 'Game Over' for Linux? November 03, 2011 
Every so often here in the Linux blogosphere, a headline pops up in the news and you just know it's going to be a rough week. Case in point: "Mobile Proliferation Killed Linux Hopes for World Domination." Yes, for those who missed it, that was a real headline in the news last week, courtesy of Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri, and yes, it's made more than a few bloggers' blood pressure rise.
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Ubuntu Linux to Hit Tablets, Phones, TVs in the Nick of Time? October 31, 2011 
Ubuntu is already the leading Linux distribution on desktop PCs, according to
DistroWatch, and now it's set its sights on tablets, smartphones and even TVs as well. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth called the move "probably the most significant broadening of scope in Ubuntu's history."
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Ubuntu 11.10 and the Oddly Oneiric 'Countdown' October 20, 2011 
It's often the case that anticipating a thing is just as pleasurable as the thing itself, and that seemed to be more true than ever with the latest Ubuntu release. Yes, Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," made its long-awaited debut exactly a week ago, apparently -- though not unanimously -- bringing considerable pleasure to users far and wide.
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How Linuxy Is Android? October 18, 2011 
The Kindle Fire, the Android-based tablet Amazon revealed in late September, could well be the next step in the ongoing metamorphosis of Google's Linux derivative into a proprietary operating system. Even if Amazon does not lock down its altered Android platform, it clearly has created a major fork in the Linux road.
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Ubuntu Upgrade a Mixed Bag at Best October 12, 2011 
Canonical will release its upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 on Oct. 13. If you suffered through version 11.04 in hopes that something better would arrive in 11.10, you suffered in vain. For the typical user, very little of anything new is bundled into this latest Ubuntu upgrade. To be honest, my early hands-on experience with Ubuntu 11.10 did not disappoint me -- not really, anyway. I was not expecting much in the upgrade.
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Which Linux Distro Leads the Pack? September 08, 2011 
Between Googlerola, the tempestuous software patent storm, HP's shenanigans and the one-two punch delivered by CmdrTaco and Steve Jobs, we've surely displayed all the stamina any group of completely overwhelmed souls could reasonably be expected to have. Time now for a little fun. And how do Linux bloggers have fun? That's right, by engaging in a little high-spirited debate.
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HP's Tablet Failure: Big Fun for FOSS Fanatics August 26, 2011 
There may be life yet for the seemingly defunct HP TouchPad. The company has discontinued its development of all webOS devices, leading retailers to drastically mark down prices on the TouchPads they have in stock. Some buyers have been able to score one for as little as $100 -- that's $400 off the initial asking price when the device entered the market a couple of months ago.
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