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When I read with disappointed interest the news that the German Foreign Office had decided to migrate back to Windows after having deployed Linux on their office desktops in 2005, my immediate reaction was one of resignation.

Building your own desktop PC is a fun and easy project that will allow you to customize a system to fit your needs. Earlier this year we showed you how to build a high-powered video editing machine, but this time we worked to keep the price tag under $500.

Survey showing MacOS will increase its market share 57 percent appeared only weeks before Apple replaced its Xserver with non-server MacPro.

The future of the Linux desktop took a dramatic new turn this morning during Mark Shuttleworth's keynote address at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. In that talk, the founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu distribution outlined plans to make Unity, the user interface currently used on Ubuntu Netbook Edition, the default user interface for the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, beginning with the Ubuntu 11.04 release.

With no huge success on the desktop (save Firefox) and with the advent of cloud computing, several open source luminaries are calling for a formal move to something else.

Why do we need to re-evaluate what the success of Linux might look like? One look at the future will tell you why.

Revenue, a Linux-based platform, and corporate backing. Will the desktop Linux developer be ultimately lured away by the promises of Android and MeeGo?

Bored with your old beige box? These enterprising modders have you covered. Gorgeous, unwieldy, and rarely pragmatic, here are 15 cases that blur the line between workhorse and work of art.

As the differences between Linux distributions reduce, the question must be asked of each: how is this distribution best used? What is its sense of identity?

Have no doubt, this is a really nice thing for the Mozilla Foundation to do. So where, I would ask, are the corporate donors for accessibility? I can't remember the last time I heard about a big donation to any project's a11y efforts--oh, wait, that was 2008.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 8 (Helena) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.