The software ecosystem has interesting tentacles, says Simon Brew, as he investigates the trend of selling icons onto increasingly bloated Windows computers…

Free software idealism is a necessary and desirable part of the software landscape, says Richard Hillesley…

Few web video standards are truly open or free, and the major players have no interest in pushing them, says Richard Hillesley…

Ubuntu 12.04 has a number of challenges to overcome before we think it’s ready for the planned LTS release later this month. We kick off a irreverent list with a few gripes about Unity and the Dash…

Contributing to the documentation of a free software project is a good route for those who want to get involved but don’t know where to start (or how to program), and want to know how it’s done. Richard Hillesley explains…

Jon Masters shares his thoughts on what 2012 holds for Linux kernel development…

With apologies for the sensationalist headline, Simon Brew wonders how to get a realistic debate going in the modern world…

This month Jon Masters takes a break from looking at the very latest developments in the Linux kernel community, to bring two New Year special editions of his column. We start with a look back at 2011 with a look into the future to follow…

Changes to the behaviour of interfaces don’t always go down well, but are sometimes a good thing, says Richard Hillesley

openSUSE community manager Jos discusses the paradigm shift in UIs brought on my the mobile computing revolution…

Want to watch a Blu-ray on your PC? That’ll be £50 please. Simon, for one, is fed up of this game. Join him as he looks at one of the many wheezes the proprietary software and hardware industry are still trying to pull…

openSUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet, shares his thoughts on the recent creation of Tizen and offers a new home for the MeeGo project…