Cody Taylor

ruphus13 writes “When Mark Shuttleworth was asked what role WINE will play in Ubuntu’s success, he said that Ubuntu cannot simply be a better platform to run Windows apps. From the post, according to Shuttleworth, ‘[Windows and Linux] both play an important role but fundamentally, the free software ecosystem needs to thrive on its own rules. it is *different* to the proprietary software universe. We need to make a success of our own platform on our own terms. if Linux is just another way to run Windows apps, we can’t win. OS/2 tried that …’ The post goes on to say, ‘Linux simply isn’t Windows (nor is Windows Linux) and to expect fundamentally different approaches (and I’m not just thinking closed versus open) to look, feel, and operate the same way is senseless.'”

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jammag writes “It’s long been one of those exceptionally hard-to-quantify numbers: exactly what percentage of the desktop PC market is held by Linux? Doubters suggest it hovers around a negligible one percent, while partisans suggest it’s in excess of 10 percent. Bruce Byfield explores the various sources of estimates, dismissers’ and fan boys’ alike, and guesstimates it might realistically be 5-6%. Still, he admits, ‘the objectivity of numbers is often just a myth.'”

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Anyone who knows anything about my tastes in the Linux desktop knows I really haven’t liked the KDE 4 interface, but the latest version, KDE 4.2.2, is looking good, darn good.

Here’s a review of top 10 applications for KDE4. Yakuake – Great terminal application.

For Linux users who don’t need absolute top-notch 3D performance, Intel is considered the preferred graphics solution, not least because the company develops its drivers as open source within the framework of the X.org project. However Intel’s drivers are currently in a state of some disarray.

One might think that the ext3 filesystem, by virtue of being standard on almost all installed Linux systems for some years now, would be reasonably well tuned for performance. Recent events have shown, though, that some performance problems remain in ext3, especially in places where the fsync() system call is used.

W3Counter.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 2.16% for the first time ever.

In this article I’ll include three ways to screencast your Linux desktop with the help of recordMyDesktop, XVidCap and Istanbul. These three applications are included in every major distribution.

It would seem that George Orwell might have been more prophetic than we perhaps gave him credit for. Currently, our televisions cannot watch us, but at the rate things are progressing, it is only a matter of time. After all, most PCs now come with web cams and certainly 90% of cell phones.

W3Counter.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 2.16% for the first time ever.