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Free software is famously close to its users, drawing on them for warnings about bugs (and sometimes fixes), as well as ideas and sugges...

Canonical pulled off something of a coup at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) when it announced its Ubuntu TV – inevitably dubbed...

Mark Shuttleworth is probably best known for three things. Selling the certificate authority Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for about $5...

One of the problems with the rapid pace of development in the world of computers is that the latter become out of date and slightly slow com...

One of the first PCs that I bought was a Dell. It came with 8 Mbyte of memory, 230 Mbyte hard disc, and cost a mere £1479 (the HP Laserjet I...

Remember IdeaStorm – “Where Your Ideas Reign” – Dell's brave venture into the scary world of crowdsourcing? Amazingly, it's still go...

Interesting : The Open University (OU) is now a certified Microsoft IT Academy adding to its fast-growing suite of IT vendor certifications....

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into...

I make no apologies for returning to the subject of the European Patent Office's referral of a “point of law” concerning software patent...

One of the unsung virtues of open source is the ease with which you can add, remove and upgrade programs. In part, this comes down to the f...

Well, a groovy African name worked for Ubuntu, so maybe it will for Kongoni : Named after the Shona word for the GNU, Kongoni has a strong B...

Everybody knows that Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux distro for the desktop. Everybody knows that it has achieved that distinction be c...

The announcement last week of a “Microsoft-free” desktop solution from IBM has naturally been garnering headlines, in part because it's ...

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have cottoned on to this strange phenomenon : Ever notice how Microsoft plasters the Windows name o...

It's often forgotten that one of the strengths of GNU/Linux is the extraordinary range of platforms it supports. Where the full Windows...

Windows malware on a computer running Ubuntu? Strange.

One thing that has always struck me in the free software world is the power of example. Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there ...

Even though it's years since I crawled out of the dark cave of proprietary software, I remain amazed at the unending stream of free apps...

There is a deep irony in this : Most netbook enthusiasts could recite the specs sight unseen, based on the most popular spec of the 9 inch n...

"Khmer" and "free software" are not the most obvious collocations. Indeed, the word "Khmer" tends to suggest ...