Linux has vaulted to 1.4 percent worldwide desktop market share from 0.97 percent in July, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, a new Linux Foundation survey on enterprise adoption of Linux indicates that 84 percent of organizations currently using the open source operating system have expanded their deployments over the last year. Meanwhile,...
How important is open source to the cloud? If you ask the Linux Foundation, you’ll be told it’s absolutely essential — which is, of course, exactly what an organization such as the Linux Foundation would say. But now the group has hard data to back up these claims.
Linux is the oft-ignored third wheel to Windows and Mac. Yes, over the past decade, the open source operating system has gained a lot of traction, but it’s still a far cry from being considered popular. Yet though that may be true, Linux still earns new converts every day. Will you join them?
The learning curve of Linux is what deters most users from even trying it in the first place.
Contents
GNU/Linux
Distributions
Devices/Embedded
Free Software/Open Source
Leftovers
Clip of the Day
GNU/Linux
Desktop
The outlook for Windows 7 with Google Chrome coming up
Microsoft Windows owned 91 percent of the PC operating system market in 2009, and IDC expects it to drop by 1 percent by 2014. Mac, which had 4 percent in 2009, is expected to increase to 5 percent by 2014.
Gaming on Linux is getting more interesting by the day. Valve has updated its Steam December Survey to include Linux statistics. This is Valve’s first month with Linux and even though the Steam for Linux system is still in a beta stage, Linux users already account for 0.8% of total Steam users.
This is something every sysadmin knows, or shoul know, but maybe Desktop Linux users does not know.
Yes it is not too useful for Desktop users anyway but, in case you do not know and might need to enable or disable the loggin ability of some users here is how to.
First let's see why we would like to do such a thing (blocking a user from loggin).
Much as we here in the Linux community may wish that everyone could cut their proverbial computing "teeth" on our favorite operating system, the fact remains that the majority of the world starts off on Windows. That, after all, is why the tragedy of "Microsoft Trained Brain Syndrome" has persisted all these years.
In trying to make Windows users understand that they can finally be free of proprietary operating systems, the Linux user must be careful not to come off as too-elitist or snooty. We know that Linux is less complex, less targeted for malware, easier to fix/repair/upgrade, and far easier to customize, but they do not.
A good number of users highly value the services provided by Google, including emails, calendars, tasks, documents, and so much more. But Linux users also love their desktop applications, and how they often integrate very nicely with the desktop.
So what can people do who use Linux but love Google’s products?
Email this page
