Linux and comes to 5.3% share of users
This is July 2011, three years ago was stuck in a consolidated 0.5% compared to Windows XP and Vista recently implemented. Linux has made progress paqueterías PPA, marketing ubuntero, users always willing to explain, scheduling, document and work with the rookies. Although GNOME3 has its shortcomings, advances in the kernel, free graphics drivers, the current KDE 4.7 and its libraries, browsers like Firefox, Opera and Chrome and software of all kinds become more and more polished have made GNU / Linux thing progresses to running DX11 and OpenGL. The jump they have measured on w3schools though they focus on development rather than casual surfers. According NetApplications Linux is stuck at 1% and although a self viewed from the cognitive ability that there is a gulf of difference in the rate at which packets and make off cosmetic changes and interface code in Linux Mint for example , and the slowness of Windows 7, the Redmond giant, as much as 64-bit applications abound particular, the availability of hardware support slowing in MinWin-NT and so can also be seen but a common hobby of both operating system platforms cell phone interface to take over the heart of ARM, but that is inevitable and irremediable.
Android competition complaint
Enraged Android
If the operating system market is generally a hostile and highly competitive market, what can we say about the mobile operating system market? That everything is intensified more. No doubt about it. And if you still do not believe in this statement, the information that I will now discuss them aware of the degree of competition that makes the world of OS for smartphones.
As you know Android is an operating system created by the people at Google are the following characteristics: it is a concept designed for mobile use and features an open source enables users to act as developers and transformers system used.
For this reason, and a large advertising campaign, no doubt-that Android managed to position itself in the most privileged in smartphone operating systems.
Since its debut in 2008, Android has grown to become the most popular operating system in the world for "smartphones" with a market share of 48%, according to the second quarter of the consulting firm Canalys.
"More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 distributors," said the manager of Google.
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Harsh criticism of GNOME 3 Linus Torvalds
Gnome 3
The audience in the world of operating systems is not easy nor conciliatory. If we were to compare it with other audiences, we might recall the behavior of the people attending the theater to interact with the actors, throwing vegetables, laughing, in short, have a party. In the case of the reception and appreciation of the operating systems things are not so festive. As the level of demand that will account for the developers is so high that they often fail to live up to the occasion.
A little this is what Linux Torvalds has acknowledged Linux, when a statement to Google + had no qualms about criticizing his own creation, the first version of the latest GNOME, ie 3. Interesting to note how the creator is separated from its inception, noting the deficiencies, errors and problems that it has.
Now the question we must ask is whether these criticisms are genuinely motivated, then we should recognize the attitude of Torvalds, which has not been afraid to reduce the success of your product so to be honest and transparent. Or, if those criticisms are actually the product of listening to a poor reception by the public demanding users. Read more
Does Microsoft with Linux?
Microsoft and Linux
The paradoxes of history that makes the enemies are seen as infinite, often working in agreement, and that those who are taken as friends unparalleled adopt strategies that place them at opposite paths. This is the case with Microsoft and Linux, two enemies close if any in the world of software and operating systems. Well as you know Microsoft users often prefer to take Linux as strange freaks who can not understand. And, in turn, Linux users adopt the flag of their environment as if it were a political identity, and fighting for the open source campaign like a liberating oppressed peoples.
However, things are not so simple. As mentioned, the extremes meet. And in this case we can say on the subject of the agreement that Microsoft has taken shape with Linux, working collaboratively on a new open source. One might wonder how can two economic enemies as strong as these two giants together to gain entry into the Linux kernel code.
And the answer must be provided, sadly, from the standpoint of individual interests. None of cooperative masters. No. Here is what is giving priority to the pursuit of their own profitability. Is that Microsoft has an end goal in this collaboration: making use Linux as a lure for people who hate Microsoft, so as to expand their target customers. Read more
New Zorin OS 5
Zorin OS 5
As you may know, Zorin OS is a GNU / Linux based on Ubuntu and original main objective was to make migration from Windows to novice users a simple event and away from any kind of trauma. Changes is emphatic, wherever they occur, tend to question the certainties that we held until then. Fear of change is just the reaction to these risks. Zorin OS The idea was from the beginning, encourage users to make changes and migration, naturally in favor of Linux.
Well, a few days ago that has released a new version Zorin OS: Zorin OS 5. And while nobody knew long ago much of what was brewing in Zorin, we can now see why there was no news to date. The intention was to raise expectations from the perspective of the mole, who works in a low and breaks without warning in the present.
And while so far we are able to access the Core version (free) and Ultimate (surcharge), ie, the supply is not very diversified, we managed to say a few words on what until now can be used . Before that, it's important to say that the next versions (Zorin OS 5 Lite, Educational, Business, Multimedia and Gaming) will appear in the coming weeks.
If we were to summarize the news, we could say that providing the user experience (target maximum of this distribution) is carried out from the interface. Read more
OpenSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1
OpenSUSE 12.1 Milestone
The release of OpenSUSE 11.4 in March was like a veritable Pandora's box. Since that event many of the user community is increasing expectations regarding the paths that will transit the new version of this distribution in what will the year. Well, no news, folks. As already confirmed that it can be downloaded from the web openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1.
Of course users can access this version through the prism of curiosity and the score. It must be said that it is extremely unstable and is not recommended at all as it is. Well, just knowing that this version is the first in a list of 9 versions throwing the sea will the web in the remainder of the year, then the level of demands can be reduced genuinely, without having to put aside our critical claims regarding the reading of the products are released.
It is believed to be the end of November to launch the final version. More precisely, 11/01/11: An extremely strategic time in which everyone knows anyone memorize and forget.
The series of OpenSUSE is continuously being modified for years, and nothing seems to stop the developers in their task of infinite creation.
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Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric Ocelot and his regime of substitutions
Ubuntu 11.10
In this post we'll talk a little about the next version of Ubuntu, which teniene release schedule. We refer to the Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric Ocelot. But before talking about it, let's review the dates provided by the developers of the various versions of Ubuntu that will happen in the year:
* Alpha 1: June 2
* Alpha 2: June 30
* Alpha 3: August 4
* Beta 1: September 1
* Beta 2: September 22
* Final version: October 13
You must know that everything that is said is kept below the level of conjecture and hypothetical form of speech, since so far nothing is confirmed at 100%.
What we can comment on the developments of the next Ubuntu release? Essentially what we notice is that the Ubuntu 11.10 Ocelot oneiric operate a series of very interesting substitutions they will invest the established order to the present. What substitutions talking about?
First sustición, and nothing less, is to be held in the web browser. It is claimed that it would not be the absolute master Mozilla Firefox browsing experience of users, but instead now be the new king Chromium.
The same goes for replacing operated in the mail client. He said in several sources that could replace the default Thunderbird to Evolution.
Finally, as far as session management is concerned, has also been rumored that, for various reasons that are irrelevant now explicitly LightDM could replace GDM.
Debian Dilemma
- Debian
The distributor Debian has a policy that now seems to place them in a real dilemma: if they agree to adopt certain new cacracterísticas own times as desired to achieve by any project that seeks to entice users, but in this case the cost is perhaps risking the element that served as a framework for their own identity formation: stability. Conversely, if you do not agree to these developments and keep resisting as they have been doing for years will be ensured stable identity but at the cost of losing a large amount of public and users who may take it as their own. What to do?
Evidently, and according to what has been commenting on the web these days, Debian would be willing to pay the price of the first alternative, since a target server and can not afford professional environments, and would like to access layers broader population. Now, as we said, the price or condition of this possible is bound to leave that paragon of political stability that made each update comes after several years of waiting.
In that sense has been discussed within the areas of Debian the possibility of incorporating the environmental latest GNU / Linux or Ubuntu or also OpenSUSE, as is the use of PPAs.
We'll see how it is for these experiments and whether Debian finally get the desired objective without neglecting the brand that set him apart in the market.
Good economic numbers for Apple
Mac and Linux
The numbers are not reality. But allow us to access it from a single prism that ends up being much fairer and more accurate than the problematic issues of meaning and intersubjective search for truth. So taking as an object of statistical study one person can have a fairly adequate picture of the real movements.
Is this what we have done in the state they are today the great magnates of the computer: Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. These three operators now compete for the market of goods and services, bringing to market products daily users worldwide and set the agenda wish to purchase more than one person.
We all know that Microsoft is the giant par excellence. He has made over the years adopted a very positive position given its brand and products for large segments of the population of users. However, over time, Apple and Linux have also managed to make their own achievements, alternative marketing strategies. Linux with its concept of open source, has helped generate a counter-culture that adopts Microsoft and Apple as the giants to be derrotadodos. Apple, by contrast, has been very successful in designers and users with exquisite taste.
And it is this change in market dynamics that has been expressed with the financial results of the last fiscal quarter for Microsoft. Read more
News of MeeGo after his "decline"
Meegan
Economic relations between companies and enterprises of all types take forms so alien to human relations that nothing would seem to make a link to enable a comparison between both worlds. While economic agents have the blinders of the strategy and calculation, taking the other players merely as means to pursue their own goals, individuals dealing with their fellows only seen from the viewpoint of the generosity, love and respect.
But there are times when the two worlds converge, mingle, thus resulting in complexities that require analysis. A case in point is the destination that offers MeeGo after the strategic alliance between Nokia and Windows at the beginning of the year. Since this alliance held as follows: for the purposes of making a bit of shade as well established competition represented by Android and IOS, you need to generate a trade pact in which all Nokia products incorporating Windows Phone 7.
But until then Nokia worked with Linux operating system partner Meegan. Well, once the new covenant replaced the old, what would happen to poor old alliance that led to MeeGo?
Well, all is not lost for this operating system. Read more
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