An interview with Mark Shuttleworth
07/08/2010 • Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics. ...more
Vodacom launches R1000 laptop
05/13/2010 • Telecommunications group Vodacom has launched its Linkbook into the SA market – a super-low price netbook that will go for R199 per month on a two-year contract, including a monthly bandwidth bundle of 300MB. ...more
The Linux-powered guitar
02/11/2010 • As an open source operating system Linux shows up all over the place. I've seen Linux-powered vending machines, ATMS, model ...more
Incoming Android
09/23/2008 • The first smartphone based on Google's Android mobile operating system is being launched on September 23 2008, on the same ...more
Compiling your own Linux kernel
02/11/2008 • I regularly speak to Linux users wanting to roll their own kernels. There are various reasons to do this, including ...more