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PCLinuxOS - Rolling on a river
In-depth Richard Hillesley charts the trials and tribulations of PCLinuxOS.
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The fall and rise of Mandriva Linux
In-depth Richard Hillesley ponders the future of Mandriva.
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Haiku: Reason to believe
In-depth Richard Hillesley looks at whether Haiku will get the opportunity to move from a hobby to a viable open source alternative.
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The lost world of the Xandros desktop
In-depth The latest release of the Xandros Linux desktop edition was in June 2006, which is several lifetimes in the history of Linux. Is this the end of the line for the Xandros desktop?
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Building on a Linux brand
In-depth Red Hat is a perfect example of how open source firms need to trade on their reputation, not just their product.
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FreeBSD and the GPL
In-depth Linus Torvalds has said Linux wouldn't have happened if 386BSD had been around when he started up. We trace the history of FreeBSD and how it's affected the open source world.
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Slackware Linux - Less is more
In-depth Slackware is the oldest Linux distribution still with us and has a loyal following among those long term Linux users who pine for the old fashioned virtues of simplicity, straightforwardness and lack of bloat.
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Puppy Linux: Just for fun
In-depth Puppy Linux is something different, a tiny version of Linux that can be stored on a USB memory drive, will run in memory, and can be used for working on the move.
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Bona fide open source
In-depth Has open source become a victim of its own success?
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SCO: The party never ends
In-depth Like the bad actor in a Victorian melodrama, SCO refuses to lie down, and keeps coming back for more.
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10 reasons to use open source in business
In-depth Open source software might be cheaper than alternatives, but it has many other business benefits, too.
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Chrome OS – Lost in the cloud?
In-depth It’s no Windows killer and it'll take some belief in the cloud before Chrome OS can change things.
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In search of the Linux desktop
In-depth How can GNOME and KDE developers create the modern Linux desktop?
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IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org
In-depth During the ongoing flirtation between IBM and Sun Microsystems, little has been said about OpenOffice.org, which has been viewed as one of the less significant parts of Sun's open source portfolio.
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The politics of the command line
In-depth Free software has lead to communities of diverse individuals forming to fight for a common cause.
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TomTom - The drums of a patent war with Microsoft?
In-depth Microsoft's IP claim against TomTom could just be the first salvo in an open source patent war.
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Corporate investment the price of Linux's freedom
In-depth It may be open source, but Linux has frequently required corporate support, including from the proprietary software market.
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Building customised Linux distributions
In-depth UK firm 64 Studios is using Componentised Linux and the Platform Development Kit to offer customised Linux to companies.
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A question of piracy
In-depth Can software piracy help boost sales, or should vendors give up the battle and set their products free?
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Copyright on the tracks
In-depth The origins of the free software movement can be traced back to to the hackers of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, but more recently model railways have played a significant part in validating copyright law.
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The need to know: Documentation in Linux
In-depth Documenting the development of open source software is key to keeping it easy to use, but some disagree on its necessity.
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Free Linux driver development
In-depth Open source drivers will become an imperative, rather than a choice, for device manufacturers who want to break into new markets and extend their user base.
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Strip mining of open source
In-depth Strip mining of open source can be interpreted as the appropriation of free software code for proprietary gain with no intention of feeding code changes back to the community. Open source software developers beware...
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MS-OOXML: A format without a future?
In-depth Is Microsoft's Office Open XML a functional standard, and if not, why is it being rushed through the process?
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