Measuring the popularity of Linux has always been a difficult thing. A well used method is the Distrowatch rankings. This simply measures the visits on each distro page on the site every day.
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Open Source Makes a Difference
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New Pentaho sponsored report from Mark Madsen conducts price comparison of commercial open source and top five proprietary vendors
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Szulik to step down as Red Hat chairman
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Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat’s board of directors, is stepping down in August after his term expires, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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We’re More Than Mark
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Amid heightened competition in the Linux market, Canonical — the promoter of Ubuntu Linux — is growing up and pushing beyond the massive shadow of founder Mark Shuttleworth (pictured). Here’s the evidence and some perspective from The VAR Guy.
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Chromium on Ubuntu 10.04 Slower than Firefox?
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Maybe I'm being unfair. After all, I have been having networking problems with my Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) virtual machine running in VMware Workstation 7. Seems to be tied to a DNS problem. The VM doesn't pick up the DNS server IPs from the DHCP server on my network (though it gets an IP just fine). I thought the solution was to point to Google's free DNS servers.
Read more »Lawyers Try to Marry Free Software and Software Patents in Maastricht University (Brussels)
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Lawyers in Europe strive to net some extra money by promoting "interoperability" (with software patents) rather than making use of open standards
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Novell vs. Mandriva: Don't Confuse 2 Potential Linux Sales
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Novell, promoter of SUSE Linux, is listening to potential takeover bids. Mandriva, promoter of a Linux distribution that has 3 million users, is in discussions with potential investors. As a result, some pundits think Mandriva Linux and Novell SUSE Linux face the similar business challenges. I beg to differ. Here’s why.
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Novell’s Future in Fog Computing
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Krita 2.2 Released
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Highlights of Krita 2.2 are the new brush engines, the new brush settings preset system, new file filters (for XCF, JPEG2000 and OpenEXR, action recording, much more extensive use of OpenGTL, a new core image handling system, and a quick-access popup palette for recently used colors and brushes. There are beautiful new icons by Enkithan.
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What Novell Still Does: Software Patents and .NET
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Supine, weak, miserable Novell is doing the only things it still knows how to do, namely assisting Microsoft and amassing controversial patents on computer algorithms
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The Challenge of Understanding Icons
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Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it represents a function, i.e., the query in a search. So, one and the same image is meant both to attract attention to itself and to facilitate action.
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Best non-HTC Android phones
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HTC dominates the Android phone market but other mobile makers are picking up the Android pace. The majority of Android-based mobile phones released to date have been made by HTC but there are also a number of other Android phones worth considering. We look at some of the alternatives to HTC if you're determined to own an Android phone.
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Play Windows Games on Linux and Mac
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Linux Journal Gadget Guy Shawn Powers walks you through how to play Windows games on Linux and Mac. Shawn shows off CodeWeavers CXGames and Cedega running on Linux. CodeWeavers CXGames also runs on Intel x86 Mac OS X systems.
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Landscape 1.5: The Implications for Ubuntu Customers and Partners
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When Canonical launched Landscape 1.5 this week, it was a timely reminder that the software company is trying to develop multiple revenue streams beyond Ubuntu services. Moreover, Landscape 1.5 represents Canonical's latest attempt to make Ubuntu easier for businesses and solutions providers to remotely manage. Here's a closer look at the Landscape strategy.
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Review: Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition
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Ubuntu 10.04's release last month brought a number of much-discussed changes to desktops. But the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release also marked an important milestone for Ubuntu Server Edition. Here's a look at Ubuntu 10.04 on servers, with some thoughts on what works well and where there's room for improvement.
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