Own Your Wee Li’l Linux Penguin

Electronics company Kysoh came out with a penguin droid–who else it would be but Linux’s Tux? The Tux droid is a little robotic toy that talks and moves.  It connects to your Linux box (via fish USB dongle!) so you can configure it to do all sorts of stuff. It also uses python as a [...]

New Lightweight Linux Desktop for Notebooks

Since ultra low-cost notebooks are the rage these days and that Linux is becoming a more “pedestrian” OS, lightweight desktop management environments are becoming more popular.
Let’s face it: anything from Microsoft is a resource hog right now and Linux is just too alien for most people.
Things are changing however:
…gOS, the Linux distro that made a [...]

A Baby Named Linux

A friend emailed this to me:
 

Reader Christian Nielsen wrote from Sweden to tell us he and his girlfriend have named their baby Linux, after the operating system, and attached this darling photo.
Nielsen says he and his girlfriend Veronica considered a few names during the pregnancy, “but when he finally arrived none of them seemed right. [...]