Kubuntu funding cut just one step in Canonical's grand plan

Canonical's withdrawal of funding to the Kubuntu project apparently is not very important to the company's owner, Mark Shuttleworth.
 

SUSE set to mark two decades in business

SUSE Linux will this year mark 20 years since it was brought to life by three raw German graduates and a software engineer.
 

A tale of two distros: openSUSE and Linux Mint

For as long back as I can remember, GNU/Linux distributions have resembled Windows in one respect - that start menu at the bottom of the left side of the screen.
 

Linux Mint chief not carried away by success

Given the rave reviews that Linux Mint has been getting recently, it would be perfectly understandable if the man driving the distribution was a little swollen-headed by this time.
 

GNOME 3: what's all the fuss about?

The latest incarnation of the GNOME desktop, version 3. has been out for a while. I'm one of those who is late to the party, one at which there have been very few compliments and loads and loads of complaints. At times, when you get something free, you tend not to value it.
 

Linux distros in bid for common app installer

Developers from five GNU/Linux distributions have agreed to work on a common method for installing applications and hope to have a working implementation for users to test out by November.
 

Quick update to Parallels Desktop squashes bugs

A new build of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac fixes a laundry list of bugs and delivers various improvements.
 

OpenSUSE's Brockmeier caught out over Moglen claim

OpenSUSE community manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has been caught out spreading misinformation about the patent deal that Microsoft signed with his employer, Novell, a little over three years ago.
 

openSUSE 11.2 available for immediate download

Incorporating many new features, the openSUSE project has announced the immediate availability of version 11.2 of the popular Linux package.
 

Push to make KDE default desktop for OpenSUSE

Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.