Release managers just made the call that Firefox 3.0 will release with a known bug which brings Linux systems to their knees. Firefox’s system-killing performance bug
The second-class Linux support policies of the Mozilla foundation continue… I imagine the reasoning went something like it has always gone in the past: “the platform that matters most is [...]

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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has again called for the developers of major open-source software programs and Linux distributions to synchronize their development and release cycles. He argues that consistent and universal adherence to a specific time-based release model would promote more collaboration between projects, ensure that users have access to the latest improvements to popular [...]

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This week’s release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don’t need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched, and any files you create or settings you tweak remain in place [...]

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