A Death Blow to DRM.
Less than two months after Apple chief executive Steve Jobs challenged record labels to stop insisting on "digital rights management" copy restrictions, one of the major record labels took him up on the invitation. more...

New GPLv3 draft takes new approach to patents, lock-down technologies.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the third draft of the revised third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). more...

Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft.
Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project and a major figure in the open-source programming movement, said Wednesday he's "pretty pleased" with changes in a third draft of the General Public License (GPL) released Wednesday. more...

System 76 Darter laptop.
While users are pleading with Dell to sell systems with Linux pre-installed, smaller vendors have been offering Linux on OEM hardware for some time. One of the more recent arrivals in the OEM Linux market is System 76, which sells a decent selection of desktop, workstation, and notebook systems with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. more...

Here come the Dell Linux desktops, laptops.
Dell contacted DesktopLinux.com on March 28 to let us know that the company will be releasing select desktop and notebook systems with pre-installed Linux as an option in the coming weeks. more... Since launching Dell IdeaStorm a little more than a month ago, one idea has risen to and stayed at the top: better support for Linux. more... Linux Driver Support is Key more... Dell gives the go-ahead for Linux. more...

Dell, the Linux desktop, and timing.
Dell may have picked the perfect time to begin offering Linux-powered desktops. Why? Because, the next generation of Windows, Vista, has just sprung its first major security leak: the .ANI vulnerability. more...

OpenOffice 2.2 available.
The OpenOffice.org Community on March 29 announced the release of a major upgrade to OpenOffice: version 2.2. The group claims that with upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, the free office suite provides a real alternative to Microsoft's recently-released Office 2007 product. more...

Linux kernel gains paravirtualization option.
The next stable release of the Linux kernel will reportedly have a new paravirtualization ABI (application binary interface) contributed by Vmware. more...

Applications.

Oracle joins Linux patent commons.
Oracle and the Open Invention Network (OIN) will announce that Oracle will become an OIN licensee. By doing this, Oracle opens the doors to making some of its patents available royalty-free to any company, institution, or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against Linux. more... and more...

Mark Shuttleworth and pre-installing Linux.
There’s been a tremendous level of interest in the fact that pre-installed Linux (in the form of Ubuntu | Fedora | OpenSuSE) is the #1 rated suggestion on Dell’s IdeaStorm. On the face of it, there is little question that Linux pre-installation is popular with customers. more...

Mac vs. PC: How Would Linux Fit?
Apple’s “Get a Mac” Campaign. Always a branding powerhouse, Apple is a company whose television advertisements are usually excellent. Their recent Get a Mac campaign (”Hi, I’m a Mac / And I’m a PC”) certainly does not disappoint. At this point, the television commercial are very well known. more.. video1... video2... video3...

Compiz and Beryl teams consider merging.
The Compiz and Beryl teams are discussing a merger. Posts on the Compiz forum and Beryl mailing list indicate that the projects are discussing how to execute a merger and work together to deliver a single compositing window manager to give "bling" to the Linux desktop. more...

Jono Bacon and connected diversity.
I am sat on a train heading home from CeBit in Germany. CeBit is huge. Freaking, insanely, grandiosely massive. The hall we were in was the size of an aircraft hanger and there are 22 such halls. more...

Become a digital video editing guru using Linux tools.
Shooting, editing, and producing video clips has been my passion for about 10 years. As a free software adept, I always tried to perform this process on Linux. This year I have finally found a set of tools that work for me. This article provides a brief tutorial on home video production. more...

How to create video titles and graphics with Kino.
Kino is one of the better free software video editors for Linux, but it isn't always intuitive. Consider such common tasks as adding titles and graphics to a clip. The best approach isn't obvious. After a little exploring, I figured out good ways to add titles and graphics. more...

Distros.
LinuxMCE is a recently released Linux distribution that promises to be the MythTV for the rest of us. more... and video...

Applications.