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What I Need to Help Sell Linux June 26, 2009 
I believe with the right approach, Linux can take a great chunk of the market; you just have to give the market what it needs and wants, while allaying its fears. What's needed is a true Linux SMB Edition, targeting specifically the needs and fears of those businesses that are using Windows -- especially those that are still using Windows 2000, which is going to lose support in 2010.
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Lilliputian Linux, and Do We Need More Critics? April 09, 2009 
Good things come in small packages, as they say, and that's perhaps never been more true than it is today, thanks to the emergence of increasingly diminutive devices equipped with Linux. Perhaps most notable of late is the $99 Marvell SheevaPlug, a wall-wart-sized device that runs Linux on a 1.2-GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of Flash -- and with power consumption of just 5 watts.
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What Apple and Google Could Teach AMD and FLOSS March 16, 2009 
Last week, I got into an argument about whether Microsoft was using TomTom to go after Linux. I also attended several events where the massive costs of the AMD vs. Intel litigation were discussed. I got to thinking how both entities -- AMD and FLOSS -- are currently defined by the dominant company in their space.
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Nonstop Parties, Patent Trolls and Members Choice Awards February 19, 2009
Well it's now been nearly a week since 1234567890 Day, but for many geeks, the fun still hasn't come to an end. Party on! Specifically, following the original Digg post last Wednesday alerting readers to the upcoming occasion, not one, not two, not three but four additional posts on the topic have been among the site's most popular stories.
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Fitness Tips for Chair-Bound Computer Users August 08, 2008 
When Jeffrey Spencer prepared for his college exams, he would tape his notes to the handlebars of his bike and ride to school, studying all the while. To him, it made perfect sense. "I am a kinetic learner, which means I learn and mentally perform best when I am moving," he says.
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Prize Power: How Competition Inspires Tech Innovation August 06, 2008 
Bob Weiss knows a thing or two about dreams. "I grew up with the promise that if one wanted to go to space, they would get the chance," said Weiss, president of the X Prize Foundation. The trouble was that nobody kept the promise. "It became obvious that the only people that were going to space were government-trained employees called 'astronauts.' Other folks were not getting to go," Weiss said.
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Yahoo, HP, Intel Give Ivory Towers a Stairway to the Cloud July 30, 2008 
Yahoo, HP and Intel are collaborating on an ambitious research endeavor called "Cloud Computing Test Bed" -- designed to support cloud computing research and education at universities. Users will be able to develop and test software, data center management, and hardware associated with cloud computing on this large-scale grid.
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The Coming of the Nerdettes and Linux's Big Chance June 16, 2008 
Given the heavy proportion of males in the Linux world, we here at LinuxInsider have trouble resisting any topic that brings females back into the picture. Imagine our glee, then, when we spotted mention of a recent Newsweek article titled "Revenge of the Nerdette"! Indeed, some of us fairly fell off of our pink leatherette chairs.
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The Fall of Reiser April 30, 2008 
It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a murder case to go forward if a body has not been found. It is even rarer for the charge to be first-degree murder -- and less common still for the defendant to be found guilty. Those were the exact circumstances, though, under which Hans Reiser was convicted Tuesday of the murder of his estranged wife, Nina.
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The New Dungeon Master April 13, 2008 
It must be tough to be 34 and already see your children overshadow you. That's what's happened to "Dungeons & Dragons," the roleplaying game that for decades has drawn geeks to roll dice and pretend to be elves, sorcerers and other fantasy heroes. It has never quite become mainstream entertainment, but it has inspired roleplaying computer games like "World of Warcraft."
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Negroponte Goes Fishing for an OLPC Chief March 07, 2008 
In Search Of: CEO to turn IT organization that operates like a terrorist group into a Microsoft-like outfit. Vision and big-picture mentality not required. Management, administrative and detail skills sorely needed. Ability to deal with a chairman who occasionally goes off reservation during press interviews a big plus.
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Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers March 04, 2008 
The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley is nestled into the Berkeley Hills just off the fire trail where runners from around the area come to take on the brutal 3.5-mile climb. The lab, though, doesn't feel like it's part of Berkeley.
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Live From SoCal Linux Expo: More Substance Than Style February 08, 2008 
SCALE is no Macworld. First of all, the Linux community doesn't have a charismatic marketing genius like Steve Jobs hawking products on a stage with a three-story screen behind him and an audiovisual program to make U2 jealous. No, we've got Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman -- and they're not here.
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Internet Bigs Back Single Sign-On February 08, 2008 
It's the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. Soon, you may not have to. Some of the Internet's biggest players -- Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign -- are working on a new single sign-on that would take some of the hassle out of surfing the Web.
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Game On for OLPC: EA to Put 'SimCity' on Low-Cost Laptops November 09, 2007 
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OLPC Foundation for the organization to include on its laptops, which sell for around $200 each.
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Google's Android: Separating the Sizzle From the Steak November 09, 2007 
There's little doubt that Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance made one of the biggest technology marketing splashes in recent memory on Monday with their introduction of Android. What kind of lasting impact the platform will have on the cellular industry, however, is less certain.
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