The perfect desktop - Ubuntu Studio 9.04. This tutorial shows you how to set up Ubuntu Studio with a slew of open source applications, for a full replacement of a Windows desktop.

Moonlight assumes subordinate position for Microsoft Silverlight. How should open source feel about the release of a new Microsoft Silverlight Linux port implementation?

Open source working as advertised: ICINGA forks Nagios. ICINGA is an offshoot of the popular network monitoring application.

PHP speeds to the cloud With Zend Framework 1.8. Developers will have new ways to connect their applications to the cloud.

Red Hat answers everybody on patents. In a brief filed with the European Patent Office, the company argues that patents hinder software innovation and should be limited in Europe.

Samsung asks if the i7500 is the Android you have been looking for. The company's Android phone has a touch screen, built-in GPS, WiFi support, a 5-megapixel camera, and 8GB of internal memory.

Report: First Android Netbook to cost $250. The Alpha 680, designed by Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies, is going through final testing now.

Ubuntu-Studio 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope screenshot tour. It's a multimedia-geared derivative of Ubuntu.

Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance. After 18 years, Linux is still struggling to gain a foothold on the business desktop.

The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems. Here's a slideshow on nearly 30 years of Sun history.