Listening to a review of the new Ubuntu release I could not help but notice the amount of hype Shuttleworth’s little distribution can generate. Can you feel it? The buzz is orders of magnitude greater than with any new major distro release. I’ve criticized Ubuntu in the past, but there is no denying that Ubuntu [...]
Who could have, just a year ago, predicted the dramatic changes in the netbook operating system world? The release of Windows 7 and cheaper hardware launched an exciting race for users between Linux and Windows, forcing both to take it up a notch, especially in the aesthetics department. This year might be the year of [...]
It’s been almost a year since I switched to Arch Linux, an elegant and simple Linux distribution. I had a Windows XP install on the other partition. I didn’t like this combination. Felt kind of like shoving the trash under the sofa instead of throwing it into the bin. It was a love-hate relationship. While [...]
Image via CrunchBase One of the most interesting aspects of this year, as far as Linux is concerned, is the lack of the usual ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ news items. And yes, the massive success of netbooks introduced Linux to the masses. However, we still have huge problems which will continue to hinder adoption [...]
Since it was the first real year for the blog (first post dated 6/1/2008), there were a lot of articles on extremely different topics in Linux, open source and the cloud, until it all pretty much focused on GNU/Linux. I also started a podcast, but that’s another story. So before we start with the 2009 [...]
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