One of the big problem of Linux is that it is difficult to estimate its market share. Web metrics give vastly different numbers based on the methodology used: from 2.11% for W3counter to 0.99% for Netstats. I thus propose a fun way to gauge the relative importance of Operating Systems: by Twibbon.

Top technology executives brushed him aside when he first raised his vision, but today Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) device has reached 900,000 children and inspired a whole new--and growing--market segment known as netbooks.

Microsoft dropped a mini-bombshell on Monday, announcing that it is contributing thousands of lines of code for inclusion in Linux. But lest anyone think Microsoft suffered a massive head trauma over the weekend, the code it is releasing isn't really about helping Linux compete better with Microsoft. The drivers are really geared at making Windows a better host for Linux.

Well, if you really want to fall in love with a Linux distro, you got to try Pardus 2009 International. You got to give it to the Turks, they created the next great sensation in the Linux world with this distro. Move over Sabayon and Linux Mint, Pardus 2009 is awesome!!! To make it even better, they are one of the first distros to incorporate KDE4 that reminds me alot of KDE 3.5.

Over a year ago I took the initiative (and why not? everybody else already had) and proclaimed 2008 as the Year of the Linux Desktop.

The Official Ubuntu Book has done well since it was first published. There have been some author changes between the 3rd and 4th editions. Jonathan Jesse and Jono Bacon have apparently dropped off the radar, while Matthew Helmke has joined the team.

Doing a one-off installation of CentOS on an odd piece of hardware involves some work. In the case of my netbook "some work" is quite the understatement. CentOS 5.x is based largely on Fedora 6, now more than two and a half years old and largely viewed as obsolete.