When I first saw the Levanta Intrepid M, I thought it was an extremely nice device.  For those of you who remember LinuxCare, what remained of that company was renamed to Levanta about a year or so ago.  The Intrepid M has an impressive list of features, including bare metal

This article gave me a thought (why the article made /. today when it was published two weeks ago, I have no idea).  I don't think Apple will (or should for that matter) just release OSX for generic x86.  They have a lot of benefits as it is now

A little late (my procrastination once again astounds), but I am indeed OSCON bound.  LinuxQuestions.org is once again a proud OSCON sponsor.  If you'll be attending and would like to meet for whatever reason, drop me a line.  See you in Portland. --jeremy

According to this article, Windows users are idiots.  I have to disagree, for a couple of reasons.  First, I'd have to say that lacking knowledge about a computer in no way makes you an idiot.  I'm sure there are plenty of geniuses that are completely computer

LQ is in the "pretty big, but not huge" category, as far as web sites go (ie. 10M views a month < LQ < 100M views a month).  While many members are extremely new to Linux, the average visitor is certainly more technical than the average visitor at

Looks like this blog post by Asa got Slashdotted.  I talked to Asa in depth about this at Gnomedex a couple of weeks ago.  I actually discussed that conversation a bit during the most recent episode of LQ Radio.  As I said there, I have to agree with some of

I thought I'd comment on something in this article (which I blogged about yesterday) that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual Apple/Intel/IBM debate.  Here's a snippet from the article: So why didn't Apple take any of these offers? Was it

A little late - but it's finally official.  LQ is once again a Media Sponsor for the upcoming OSCON.  Looks to be another great conference and one that I am proud to be associated with.  I hope to actually make the trip this year, but that's

Looks like this conversation between Doc, Chris and I couldn't have been much more timely, at least if this is true.  It appears that the Google toolbar may soon support both Linux and Mac.  I've not seen official confirmation yet, but this is extremely encouraging.  Thanks

We've fixed all known outstanding bugs at the new site.  We've also made huge performance enhancements.  While still beta, the site should be both stable and performant.  I think the tagline of "Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source" really

We've been getting a lot of good feedback on the new site.  Based on the feedback, we've already made some changes.  Once again (as has been the case with the LQ Wiki and LQ ISO) David has been helping out a ton and I'd

A follow up to this post.  I'm happy to report that Chris not only responded buy had an open and honest dialog.  He pointed out Google's place for Open Source software, which I think most people already know about, but it's good to highlight.

Doc is right.  Even though Google probably has the largest Linux backend in the world, they're a Windows company.  Despite the benefits Linux gives them, not a single one of their apps (Desktop search, the Toolbar, Picasa and now Google Earth) run on a non-Windows platform.  The ironic

Jeremy's My Web 2.0: Social Search post couldn't have come at a more appropriate time for LQ.  We are almost ready to release something that allows you to "bookmark, annotate, tag, and share".  He puts why that is important better than I could

It's no secret that I like Firefox (and Mozilla, actually).  Every time I talk to Asa, I like it a little more.  He gets Open Source and you can tell he really cares about users.  He also knows how to market Open Source to a "mainstream"

Good Morning Silicon Valley has an interesting interview with Linus.  The interview is mostly about what Linus thinks of Microsoft and the future of proprietary software models.  Linus brings up some good points.  Unlike what some people think, Microsoft is not going anywhere any time soon.  Nor will they be

A little late on this one, but as you have probably heard, Dan Robbins has been hired by Microsoft.  One has to wonder if he is a bit bitter.  He founded Gentoo and was forced to quite about a year ago for financial reasons.  He graciously transfered absolutely everything to

An article entitled "Is Linux For Losers?" recently ran in Forbes magazine.   Theo really does have a way with people, doesn't he?  While he can come off a bit harsh at time, he is often correct.  One thing that struck me as odd about the article

One more comment about this article.  Here is another quote from the article: There's also a difference in motivation. "Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix," De Raadt says. I don't know

It looks like Micro Center is not only stocking Linux machines, but are also staffing knowledgeable sales and tech people to go along with them.  This is good news and something that is sorely needed.  Even better, it looks like large retailers such as Fry's, Best Buy and

Good to see that the Indian government is distributing free CDs that contain localized versions of popular open-source applications.  From the article: The government has started distributing CDs containing Tamil-language versions of various open-source applications, including the Firefox browser, the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Columba e-mail client. It