Linux is a long, long way from becoming the king of the desktop mountain, but it has made a start by finally climbing to the 1% mark of installed desktops.

Windows fans owe Linux users a vote of thanks. Due to the free Linux desktop operating system, Microsoft has made Windows 7, for all intents and purposes, free for the next twelve months.

Eric S. Raymond, who helped coin the phrase 'open source,' thinks that the "GPL is probably doing us more harm than good." What do you think?

Debian, Fedora, MEPIS, Mint, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, the list of desktop Linuxes goes on and on, and maybe that's one of its biggest problems.

Go ahead, take a guess. Here's a hint: It's well over a hundred-billion.

How does Microsoft's latest Windows 7 leak, Build 7100 run on a netbook, the Dell Mini 9 in specific? Here's what I found.

The Linux Foundation and openSUSE recently joined forces to make it easy for any developer to get any program into any version of Linux.

Believe it Microsoft fan-boys. Microsoft's decline is starting to look like a dive.

By year's end, we're going to see Windows 7 Starter Edition on netbooks; netbooks that confuse the difference between laptops and netbooks; Linux netbooks using ARM processors, and, drum-roll please Google Android netbooks. Here's how it's going to work out.

Microsoft has grabbed a large share of the netbook market from Linux, but it's done so at a huge cost and now it's about to blow its lead with a crippleware version of Windows 7.

Oracle buying Sun is horrible news for open-source software and it's a rotten deal for Sun's developers and customers.

In a comment to one of my recent stories, someone said that they could run Windows 7 on an older PC, but not Linux. Yeah. Right. But, how slow can a PC go and still run desktop Linux? Here's the answer.

The release candidate of Ubuntu Linux's latest version, Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04 is almost out and it's looking like a good one. Here are the five best things you'll have to look forward to in this release.

There are all kinds of differences between the two, but a major one, which often gets over-looked, is that Linux is in a constant state of evolution, while Windows moves 'forward' in a series of year-long steps. Here's what that means for you.

If you're just Joe or Jane Linux user, you probably could care less about the reseller or channel sales side of Linux. It's got nothing to do with you. But, if you're own a business and want to work with Linux or open-source software, than SYNNEX's announcing the launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance is big news.