Last Monday at the Desktop Linux Consortium Conference at Boston
University’s Tyngsboro, Massachusetts Campus there was a lot of talk about
a “UserLinux” distribution. The topic was sparked by remarks by Bruce
Perens who voiced a need for a distribution that was designed to meet
community needs for a desktop operating system based on the Linux community
favorite Debian distribution.
I contacted Bruce who has been kind enough to interject some comments to my
own text. They are marked [thus].
The thought of UserLinux sparked my thinking. The thing I like about Linux is
that it’s infinitely customizable to meet the needs of almost any
situation. However, for it to be a viable desktop for the masses there seems
to me that there has to be some common features that a large nu... (more)
I recently broke my glasses though I admit I don't wear them much and I
started to notice that I was squinting more. Sometimes I could make out what
was going on on my Linux desktop, which is set to a whopping 1920 x 1200
resolution, but I couldn't quite make out some items without closer
inspection.
That's like the way I think businesses and government agencies have come to
view Linux ... (more)
Colleagues and friends often ask me about Linux since they see it referenced
everywhere from Business Week to quirky IBM and Dell commercials during
football games. I am always eager to share my experiences - I say that it
takes a bit of time to get up to speed, but it's worth it in the end,
especially for those people who have been victims of the latest computer
virus. The biggest hurdl... (more)
In an April 2005 Netcraft survey of over 62 million Web sites, Apache was far
and away the market leader for Web server software with 69.19% of the total
market share, followed by Microsoft with 20.55% and Sun a distant third with
3.04% (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/04/01/
april_2005_web_server_survey.html).
Looking back to September 2001, Netcraft also reported that Linux owned... (more)
Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com) is one of the world's most popular
Linux distributions in part from support by Red Hat and a strong community of
users. It also has been a proving ground for Red Hat to develop technologies
that will eventually make their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Recently Red Hat has spun off the Fedora Core Project into its own
organization in much the sam... (more)