Inspired by Selena Frye's "Highly superior gifts for the Linux geek", I figured that each one of us has a wish-list of sorts. So here's my not-so-complete-yet list for this year:

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As the second semester of the academic year 2007-2008 starts in the Philippines, Computer Science students start to master LaTeX for their papers. Whilst most of them would rather use their favorite w…

Speaking of Apple's new Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard, why is it that people give a big deal when Microsoft or Apple releases a feature that has been in Linux for so long already? I mean, take the Mac…

Not until recently that we start getting laptop manufacturers to start bundling Linux instead of Microsoft Windows as its pre-installed OS, the laptop with pre-installed Linux market is dominated by a…

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reviews the new asus motherboard that comes embedded with Linux, a web browser (Firefox) and a VoIP client (Skype). Whilst this may be overkill to some, it simply makes sen…

Last week, I have spent 3 days at the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology, aka Y4IT, where I was one of the speakers. My topic was not related to linux or FOSS but I was expecting othe…

Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg writes about Ubuntu on his All Things Digital column. He says "Linux's Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone". I agree with him, …

Tokyo Linux Users Group's Dave Gutteridge writes "Windows is Free: The impact of pirated software on free software" as a reaction to a May 2007 ZDNet article by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. H…

In another one of those top 10 of sorts articles on what's best or what's wrong with Linux, here's another take at the Top 12 wrong reasons Unices have for desktops. As stated by the autho…

DesktopLinux.com is holding its annual desktop Linux survey to measure the preferred Linux distribution, desktop, e-mail client, web browser, etc.

Is Ubuntu still the most popular distribution or has…