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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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