While Window 7 was stealing all the limelight yesterday Canonical made available the Release Candidate (RC) of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founding angel and CEO of Canonical, which distributes Ubuntu Linux, has praised Microsoft's newly released Windows 7.

Does Ubuntu have a future on servers, or is super-stable Debian the classier OS? Leigh Dyer weighs up the pros and cons.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Canonical has announced plans to limit the distribution of free Ubuntu CDs, claiming that demand is outpacing supply

Look out Windows, Ubuntu has crossed over into the netbook space and has debuted on the HP Mini 1000 Mi. And strangely enough, it weighs less than the same Windows model.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

The latest beta of the open source Linux distribution Ubuntu 9.04 is now out and has loads of interesting things to play with.

Hey, we like Linux, which is why we're a tad concerned by Ubuntu's efforts to come up with a hip training slogan.

Stuart Turton spends the fifth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, gets his hands dirty with 'Gnome Do' and quickly realises his new found joy for Ubuntu. Has Stuart finally cracked Linux?

It looks like Ubuntu for Linux release 9.04 is out. Best of all, it's free, stable, and contains no forced malware.

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

With netbooks a big favourite with laptop buyers over the last 12 months, we count down the five OSes that could be the friendliest for mini laptops

Fresh from claiming that 2009 will be the year of the Linux desktop, Mr Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, claims that Microsoft's introduction of Windows 7 will be a great day for the Penguin.

It resembles the excellent MSI Wind, but the inclusion of Linux-based gOS operating system makes this one super-cheap piece of hardware