“To every thing there is a season,” as the old saying goes, and “a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Can the same be said for Linux distros? That is the question that’s been on many Linux bloggers’ minds. Specifically, “What Distros Have You Used, in What Order?” was the title of the Ask Slashdot post that got the conversational ball rolling, and it was a provocative one.

Well it’s been another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, rounding out a month that never ran short on controversy, to put it mildly. The topic du jour this time? None other than Canonical’s decision to integrate Amazon results into searches done through the Dash on Ubuntu’s Unity desktop.

Android may not be as fully open as many FOSS fans would like it to be, but the fact remains that it’s essentially the poster child for Linux’s success in the mobile world. So it was with some dismay we looked on at the impromptu battle that sprang up recently between Google and Acer over Alibaba’s Aliyun OS.

Given the shock they’ve had to endure as a result of the ongoing Secure Boot saga over the past year or so, Linux geeks may perhaps be forgiven if they’re a tad sensitive to apparent attempts to exclude Linux from other new technological developments as well. It was perhaps less-than-entirely surprising, then, that FOSS fans reacted so swiftly to the initial news about Intel’s Clover Trail Atom chip.

Faithful readers of the Linux Blog Safari column here at LinuxInsider may recall the woeful report a few weeks back that a murder had been committed — by Apple, no less! — and that the Linux desktop was dead. It was a distressing report, to be sure, not least because there was no corpse in sight.

Well the ear-splitting din emanating from the neighboring Apple territories last week may have made conversation difficult for a few hours here in the Linux blogosphere, but it seems safe to say that the temporary discomfort was a small price to pay for the lively and entertaining discussions that have followed ever since.

Well it’s been a stressful few days here in the Linux blogosphere, what with the ruckus going on over in the bordering Apple territories. For such a small strip of land, you’d never think such a din could emanate from there, and all over a rectangle with rounded corners — however “creative” and “innovative” it might be.

“A while back I wrote a review on Windows 8, but when writing a review they tend to be more based on first impressions rather than how a system actually grows on you,” wrote Ken Quirk, a committed Linux fan and Ubuntu user. “So, in the interest of fairness I have decided to give Windows 8 a fair crack of the whip.”

They say everyone has a story to tell, and certainly Linux geeks are no exception. So it was with great anticipation that Linux Girl came upon an “Ask Slashdot” posting recently titled, “How Did You Become a Linux Professional?” “I’m interested in taking my skills to the next level — and making a career out of it,” wrote blogger ternarybit.

Well, it pains Linux Girl to have to write these words, but it looks like the “Death of Desktop Linux” story is back for another round. Yes, after countless debates and discussions of the topic ad nauseum over the years — the most recent being just a few short months ago, in fact — it recently reared its ugly head again, like a zombie that just won’t quit.

Twitter on Tuesday joined the Linux Foundation. However, the move comes just days after Twitter removed its find-friends feature from blogging service Tumblr. Twitter had earlier done the same to Instagram, and has imposed new restrictions on developers.

They say it’s a small world after all, but in the Magic Kingdom, it appears to be a FUD-filled world as well. How else to explain a recent episode of “Shake It Up” on the Disney Channel? Asked to diagnose a misbehaving PC, a stereotypically geeky character asks, “Did you use open source code to save time and the virus was hidden in it?” Much canned laughter ensued, of course — as did widespread outrage.