As you may know if you read this regularly I’m a big fan of Django, the Python based web development framework. I love it and I’m certainly not alone, Google are using it amongst others. In many ways Django is…

Well, after all the excitement and anticipation Dell has launched 3 machines pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux but only in the US. As a UK resident I’m a little disappointed, I’ve been waiting and saving my money patiently for a shiny…

Here’s an interesting story I came across the other day. The New York Stock Exhange is migrating it’s computer mainframe to Unix and Linux servers. A major task without doubt and it’s great to see such a massive institution putting…

It seems the open source ethos can be applied to all kinds of things, not just software. There is even an open source cola now called OpenCola. It’s licensed under the GNU Public License meaning the ingredients and recipe are…

In a somewhat surprising move Sun Microsystems has offered to use it’s considerable patent portfolio to help protect Red Hat and Ubuntu from Microsoft’s legal threats. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz made the statement recently in his blog and while it’s…