maddog reflects on the importance of netiquette in daily communication.

Whatever you might think about Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, one thing is certain: He sure can wield a metaphor.

"I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and imagination to make great contributions in these places." ~ Robyn Bergeron

A KDE project, the ownCloud initiative is a web storage app that is developed by the KDE community.

Announced today by Octality S.L., Cherokee Market is a new channel for Web applications that allows developers to distribute and sell their apps.

After three years, Guile 2.0, a GNU interpreter and compiler for the Scheme programming language, is now available.

The Android Builder Summit, to be announced by the Linux Foundation on Wednesday, February 16, will bring together OEMs, device makers, systems builders and kernel community to collaborate on the Android platform.

“There has not been a comprehensive, up-to-date freely available catalog like this for a long time,” said Victor Palau, Platform Services Manager at Canonical. “By making this open and easily searchable we want to speed the component selection for Ubuntu machines, and allow us and our partner manufacturers to focus on the value-added user experience.”