Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop. Now, that can be useful.

A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu Linux will be the first to admit that they still have a long way to go to achieve the popularity of their competitors.

J.A. Watson writes "I have been quiet about Linux this week because I have been busy trying several new versions. In the process, I have learned quite a bit more, and started to think about the philosophy behind Linux, operating system choices, and Free / Open Source software in general."

The openSuSE project for Linux has released openSuSE Build Service 1.0. The Novell-sponsored project said that this would provide developers with access to code repositories for the openSuSE Linux distribution and make it easier for developers to contribute code.

Canonical has begun selling Ubuntu, its free, open source, Linux-based distro through Best Buy and Amazon for around $20 a pop.

One of the first commercial Linux distributions aimed at the average computer user, Linspire, has just been sold to Xandros and undergone a name change to Digital Cornerstone. Xandros may not be very commonly known, but it is the distro being used by Asus on the EeePC.

According to a famous Latin proverb, "He who is everywhere is nowhere." In computing, that's not exactly true.

Ubuntu Linux has released the first developers' version of its new Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 operating system, aimed at device manufacturers.

Version 11 of the OpenSuse Linux distribution was made available on Thursday.

In the latest TOP500 listing, to be released in the next day or so, we will find that nearly half of the top supercomputers in the world are running Novell’s SUSE Linux.

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