Ubuntu is now considered as the third most popular operating system after Windows and Mac OS. With it’s 12.04 release, this libre OS marks a new era as a potential gaming platform for the foreseeable future.
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Best of Ubuntu Q Developer Summit Keynotes and Plenaries
The Ubuntu 12.04 has been released and thus it received a tremendous amount of reaction from the mainstream technology press. For sure, that was expected as the lifespan of Ubuntu 12.04 will be for 5 years and as a result many will rush to install/upgrade their system. But what’s next ? What are the plans for the next release cycle ?
Do you remember Google Wave?
Does anybody remember Google Wave ? Google Wave was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009 as a web-based real time communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. With software extensions it could provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translation and many other features.
Apple to Google Maps: We switched to OpenStreet Maps, don’t tell anyone
Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone. But rather seeing Google Maps being integrated in the app, there was something open… instead…
WordPress and Automatic loves Ubuntu and they show it
Last night I was checking some tutorials about “custom menus” over wordpress.com’s support section and came across a rare type of showing your love for an operating system especially when it is an open source project.
Don’t Make Me Think
Today I am posting an interesting article from John James Jacoby, lead BuddyPress and bbPress developer at Automatic (WordPress), who adresses todays need for not only some better web design principles but also designing facts you have to know to provide a better user experience. Enjoy and leave a comment !
5 reasons why your company should be distributed (via toni.org)
Awesome facts about internet based companies I’ve noticed a new trend in Silicon Valley. More and more startups are beginning life as distributed companies, and investors and partners are starting to accept it as normal. Our company Automattic is distributed, and I’m ready to sing the praises of running a business in this way. BTW, … Read more
ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux Desktop
Dear Android Linux,
Any Linux user will have a ROFLMAO attack and instant brain aneurysm, if a Windows user tells him that Linux needs antivirus protection ! Ha ha ha ha ha LoL LOL !
Whew! … that was close
Any way, apparently the most obvious reason to have an antivirus protection on Linux is when you have or work in a mixed environment. Lets say, you have a Linux PC/Laptop/Netbook for the real life stuff and a Windows PC for gaming that are connected to each other for file sharing.
History repeats itself: IBM vs Apple then, iPhone vs Android now
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
History, ironically, tends to repeat its self. This may be old news in political, economical or historical events but what happens in Hardware/Software industry ?.
While I was reading some articles on the web about the market share of mobile OS’s today/tomorrow, a “pattern” started to emerge before my eyes. There is something in this pattern that indicates what mobile OS will have the major market share maybe 2 years from now, or sooner. As I predict, near future of mobile phones will belong to Android Linux operating system.
Ok that may have sound like foolish… but please be patient and let me (try) explain what are the historical similarities between the war of IBM-Apple then, and Apple(iOS)-Google(Android) now and how will probably be the end of this fight over the market share pie chart. So grab a cup of coffee and open your mind !
Mark Shuttleworth: “We are our own worst enemy”
In a recent interview at Golem.de , the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, points out some thoughts about the importance of working on creating a beautifully Linux. Also he talks about MacOS X as a paradigm of that and the problems of the Linux desktop today. Last but not least, he talks about Netbooks and the … Read more