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KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Out Now: Codename Clara. The new release of the desktop software compilation is out, including many fixes.

Ubuntu One music store is coming. Does it have a chance against iTunes?

Open source: Still room for the little guy? Open source is all about scale, which is hard to attain as a small player.

Dell mistakenly charges $100K for Linux netbook. Here's Microsoft's chance to say Total Cost of Ownership is higher for Linux.

Everywhere you look, people are talking about Apple's iPad. Given the fact that tablet computers have been around for a long time and not ever been huge market successes, it's sort of surprising that Apple's device, which runs the iPhone operating system, is predicted to do so well.

Nevertheless, many people predict that the iPad will do revolutionary things like bring new life to dying print newspapers and magazines that can deliver whiz-bang versions of their publications on it. If the iPad has so much promise, though, then why couldn't an open source tablet--especially one that runs more than one operating system--have even more promise?

Ubuntu, you blew your chance to go mainstream. Why the OS isn't marketed properly.

Video, freedom And Mozilla. On HTML5 and the future of video.

Linux needs to master hardware to beat Windows. A former Microsoft design engineer weighs in.

Hundreds of jobs posted on Linux.com. It's part of a partnership with JobThreadNetwork.

Firefox 3.7 dumped in favor of feature updates. Mozilla has dumped Firefox 3.7 from the release schedule, replacing it with regular features updates for version 3.6 of the browser.

Why Linux on the desktop is wrong. Perhaps this is a poor choice of focus if we really care about Linux success.

Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 benchmarks with early Fedora 13 numbers. Check out the speed trials.

Norwegian broadcasting moves to OpenOffice and ODF. Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is intent on going open.

Tux Takes a Bow: Linux at CES. A number of Linux devices are on display at the show.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Moblin. A head-to-head comparison of two mobile Linux solutions.

Red Hat CEO On Recession, Virtualization, Ballmer. Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, says the deep recession has been a perfect storm in a positive way.

Cool Firefox Extension: It's All Text. Want to use your favorite text editor to write text for online applications? You can.

Why Google released Closure tools. The release of Closure Tools by Google under an open source license is about putting muscle behind Javascript.

Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it. An ex-Microsoft employee says Windows is doomed, and FOSS will rule.

Vint Cerf plugs Android into the Interplanetary Net. He has added a software stack to the open source Android code.

Q&A: Ubuntu 9.10 security. What are the most notable security features introduced with Ubuntu 9.10, and how can you work with them?

Barnes & Noble, aided by Android, aims to disrupt the Kindle. The Nook has two capabilities that could expand the market for e-book readers beyond Amazon's.

Why one writer can never be exclusive to Linux and open source on the desktop. The file compatibility of the current productivity stack and the lack of some applications matter.

Open source does not work well for bad guys. While some researchers express fear of malware writers using open source to improve their work, it actually doesn't help them.

OpenID implementation works on mobile platforms. Swedish company Accumulate has implemented a version of the OpenID standard for mobile phones.

Atlanta Linux Fest: Top 9 Ubuntu highlights. Many of the standing-room-only sessions focused on Canonical and Ubuntu.

How one Melburnian spent Software Freedom Day. He introduced an audience to Python.

OpenID is the biggest government boost yet for open source. U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra has announced a pilot program focused on it.

Red Hat challenges Ubuntu with KVM support. After placing its bets for years on Xen, the company has moved toward official support for KVM, the virtualization hypervisor built into the Linux kernel.

Oracle makes promises to Sun customers, but mum on MySQL. The company has much to say to Sun customers in a front-page ad it placed in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal.

he Linux kernel version 2.6.31 has been released. Desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support are among the new additions. Check out more from Linus Torvalds.

Kings of open source monitoring. OpenNMS and Zenoss Enterprise take different paths to rich, scalable, and extensible network and systems monitoring.