Linux is a general term to describe operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Linux is best known for its use in servers (most often web servers) and integrated devices, especially network equipment such as routers, managed switches and such. However, Linux has, quite recently, gained a significant boost as a desktop operating system. This [...]

Ubuntu 9.10, the user-friendly, free, Linux-based operating system, is to be released tomorrow (the 29th of October 2009). Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate sponsor, states that Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, ‘puts the user at the heart of its new design’, and being an Ubuntu user myself for about three years and a Linux user for significantly [...]