The VideoLan team has started a funding drive on Kickstarter to back the development of Windows 8 User Experience (Metro) app for VLC.

The world of software patents is getting ugly and the competition is extremely high. In such a world, it is extremely important to have a fair understanding of the technologies you are dealing with and the patent infringement it can cause. Debian is here to help.

This week, the main talking point in the world of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is Oracle giving OpenOffice.org to the Apache foundation. There has been interesting developments for Ubuntu as well. Let us take a look at some of the most the important FOSS news of the week.

Often non-profit organizations have to buy costly administrative software packages to run their organization. It is a heavy cost burden for organizations with low budgets. OpenPetra is an outcome of an effort keeping in mind such organizations.

This week, we saw a lot of releases ranging from the release of Fedora 15 “Lovelock” to Puppy Linux Wary 5.1.2. Here are the main events that took place this week in the world of Free and Open Source Software.

Linux is often considered as a geeky OS when compared to Windows and Mac OS X, however, over the past few years it has become much more easier to use and almost emulates a desktop environment which is similar to Windows and Mac.

Google and sixteen other companies have formed the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative to freely share WebM related patents on a royalty free basis.

Learn what’s new in Firefox 4, and watch millions of users around the world downloading Firefox with the realtime download counter.

Google has announced that it will be dropping H.264 support from future versions of Chrome web browser, in a move that will bolster the hopes of open web activists.

Who would have guessed that Linux geeks would like Manga? The love for a great free operating system plays the main role in this “Ubuntu Romantic School Comedy” series.

The first beta of VirtualBox is out. Read what’s new!

XVST is a free open source tool that can download videos from almost 76 popular video websites and convert them to the most popular video and audio formats.

Microsoft doesn’t have a good answer, and they don’t seem to care. However, there’s no reason to worry. Using either of my recommendations, a library can avoid the risk.

Do you know what ISO files are? How about CUE, NRG, MDS/MDF, CCD, or IMG files. These are CD or DVD image files and they can be opened if you know how.

Curiosity about Linux is on the rise among computer users and the debate is on whether or not to make the switch to Linux.