Sam Varghese is a journalist who has flirted with tech on and off. After
his first experiments with Linux began in 1998, he began using the
Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. Since
then he has written widely about the use of both free and open source
software. His personal opinions will form the core of this blog.
His personal blog is at http://wildcard.gnubies.com
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.
Canonical, the company best known for its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has decided to pull funding for Kubuntu, the version that has KDE as its desktop environment instead of GNOME.
A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great favour by neglecting it.
The Spark, an open tablet which will be available for purchase by May this year, will run the Mer operating system, the community continuation of the Linux-based MeeGo project which is hosted by the Linux Foundation.
The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.
The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, says that enforcing the GNU General Public Licence is a means of defending software freedom.
It's been some time since there was a good old-fashioned verbal spat in the free and open source software community.
The first open tablet, running free and open source software, has been announced by senior KDE developer Aaron Seigo.
A company named Zinstall is attempting to plug a product by the same name which is used for PC migrations in businesses. But in the accompanying document, which provides details of the process, there are surprising lacunae.
