Lars Wirzenius has been around since the beginning. In fact, he was a friend of Linus' who went to the same college where Linux was born. He co-founded the Linux Documentation Project and describes himself as a "hacker, programmer, and s...

Over at Microsoft, Office applications now make up a huge part of the company's revenues. In fact, as I noted recently, Office and server sales were the drivers of Microsoft's recent strong earnings report. Fans of LibreOffice and Office...

Here on OStatic, we've frequently debated whether fragmentation is good for open source projects, or not so good. We've published posts arguing that centralized management of open source projects and documentation could have big benefits...

Today The Document Foundation announced their latest update to 4.0. Blender 2.67 brings new features like cartoon and 3D capabilities. And KDE received its latest monthly updates fixing 75 more bugs. LibreOffice 4.0.3 LibreOffice 4.0.3 i...

One handy tool I've mised since moving over to Ubuntu for my desktop workstation is Quicksilver's ability to perform a quick DuckDuckGo search using hotkeys. I looked into a few Linux alternatives like Gnome-Do, which I used to swear by,...

Could Google's Chrome OS arrive on platforms that have hardly been discussed for it yet? According to rumblings from Google and some media reports, the answer is yes. Of course, there has been a lot of talk about possible mergers between...

Over at Mozilla, focus is shifting so quickly and so resolutely toward the new Firefox OS platform that it's hard to keep up with what the company's actual strategy is. As a quick recap, Mozilla's open operating system is arriving (begin...

Following the release of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0, codenamed Wheezy, comes early news of "Jesse." While it's still really really early, it's never too soon to move on. So, while Jesse gets her attention, Wheezy and Squeeze backport rules are...

With its sights set on the many users of Apple's iOS platform and apps for it, Google has unveiled a set of tools that will allow iOS developers to send users directly to its Chrome web browser on iOS from within applications. Until now,...

Although there are a lot of people saying that the Android-based Ouya gaming console will be hindered by not having cutting-edge games available for it as it launches, the console continues to generate major buzz, and developers are pro...