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  • Mobile web browsing mysteriously slips again

    Posted November 1, 2011 - 11:30 am

    Mobile web browsing as a percentage of total Internet surfing declines for the second straight month. What kind of mobile revolution is this?

  • The weird slip in mobile web browsing

    Posted October 3, 2011 - 11:54 am

    For some unexplained reason, mobile browsing as a percentage of total web surfing falls in September.

  • Desktop training harder than you'd think

    Posted February 23, 2011 - 3:15 pm

    When I read with disappointed interest the news that the German Foreign Office had decided to migrate back to Windows after having deployed Linux on their office desktops in 2005, my immediate reaction was one of resignation.

  • Debian 6.0 released in Linux, FreeBSD flavors

    Posted February 5, 2011 - 8:59 pm

    It's official: after two years of work, the Debian Project has announced the release of Debian 6.0. The new twists: Debian GNU/Linux and a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD versions, as well as a completely free-as-in-freedom Linux kernel.

  • Open Source Desktops May Not Happen for Small Biz

    Posted November 12, 2010 - 3:21 pm

    Small businesses and open source seem like a great fit, but adoption has yet to happen on any serious level. Perhaps it was the desktop model itself that was the problem.

  • Apple shifts enterprise hardware out from under enterprise expectations

    Posted November 9, 2010 - 7:12 pm

    Survey showing MacOS will increase its market share 57 percent appeared only weeks before Apple replaced its Xserver with non-server MacPro.

  • Will Unity Bring Anything But for Canonical, GNOME Relations?

    Posted October 25, 2010 - 11:24 am

    The future of the Linux desktop took a dramatic new turn this morning during Mark Shuttleworth's keynote address at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. In that talk, the founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu distribution outlined plans to make Unity, the user interface currently used on Ubuntu Netbook Edition, the default user interface for the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, beginning with the Ubuntu 11.04 release.

  • Sunday Marks Release of Ubuntu 10.10, No Towels Required

    Posted October 7, 2010 - 12:01 am

    No improbability about it: October 10 marks a big day for geeks everywhere, when Ubuntu 10.10 will see the light of day.

  • Time to Move On From The Desktop?

    Posted October 1, 2010 - 2:53 pm

    With no huge success on the desktop (save Firefox) and with the advent of cloud computing, several open source luminaries are calling for a formal move to something else.

  • A Future So Bright

    Posted September 15, 2010 - 1:51 pm

    Why do we need to re-evaluate what the success of Linux might look like? One look at the future will tell you why.

  • OpenOffice.org: Still Waiting for Oracle

    Posted September 3, 2010 - 1:01 pm

    For those who were hoping for some sort of direction from Oracle concerning OpenOffice.org during this week's conference in Budapest, you're going to be sadly disappointed.

  • The Last Temptation of the Linux Application Developer

    Posted August 27, 2010 - 2:33 pm

    Revenue, a Linux-based platform, and corporate backing. Will the desktop Linux developer be ultimately lured away by the promises of Android and MeeGo?

  • OpenOffice.org: Novell MIA from Conference

    Posted August 25, 2010 - 4:05 pm

    Oracle's been rather quiet about their plans for OpenOffice.org, but the upcoming OO.o conference may reveal some info next week. Meanwhile, at the same conference, there's a distinct lack of Novell on the sponsor list. What gives?

  • Linux Desktop Success Not in the Clouds

    Posted June 4, 2010 - 12:57 pm

    Android, MeeGo, and now Linaro--Linux is kicking butt and taking names on mobile Internet devices. So will that mean a world where we will finally get to say "This is the year of the Linux desktop"? Unfortunately, one success does not beget the other.

  • The Secret Identities of Linux Distributions

    Posted May 17, 2010 - 11:32 am

    As the differences between Linux distributions reduce, the question must be asked of each: how is this distribution best used? What is its sense of identity?

  • Linux Brands: Desired and Distracting at the Same Time

    Posted May 5, 2010 - 12:39 pm

    After Ubuntu made a concerted effort to change (and therefore highlight) it's brand, the Linux and open source community have started to examine the question of branding more closely. Some members, like Aaron Seigo, are wary of the whole notion of distribution/application branding. Which begs the question: are they right?

  • Accessibility Grant Sparks Needed Development

    Posted February 4, 2010 - 3:43 pm

    Have no doubt, this is a really nice thing for the Mozilla Foundation to do. So where, I would ask, are the corporate donors for accessibility? I can't remember the last time I heard about a big donation to any project's a11y efforts--oh, wait, that was 2008.

  • Netbooks Don't Have to Die

    Posted January 4, 2010 - 8:51 am

    So here we are in the new year and the questions keep coming: Is the netbook over and out? The Times seems to think that it is, the victim of user demand for more features and the resulting price tag on those features--"death from above," if you will.

  • Neither Netbooks Nor Desktops Are “The Answer”

    Posted September 1, 2009 - 2:31 pm

    Why do some IT people get so upset about netbooks? Story after story from “real IT” people accuse netbooks of trying to take over the world by fraud or trickery or magic. What IT pundits, like the writer of Forget Netbooks, Desktops Rule, forget is that "normal” people don't care about ideology when they buy a netbook, they care about price, portability, and getting their work done. If a netbook does that for them, why does that upset the IT people?

  • How to save money by converting your old desktops into terminals

    Posted January 12, 2009 - 12:26 am

    The economy is a wreck! Organizations across the spectrum are looking for ways to reduce costs in any way possible. Help your organization navigate these murky financial waters by extending the life of your existing desktops. Besides savings some green, doing so helps with greening the environment.

  • How to switch to the Mac without losing your Windows lifeline

    Posted December 27, 2008 - 11:32 pm

    Takeaway: With Apple's market growing, more IT organizations are considering the possibility of adding Macintosh desktops and laptops into the support mix. Besides money, the primary roadblock to replacing a Windows machine with a Mac is an inability to run Windows-only tools, such as ERP software. Learn how to overcome this obstacle in your organization and add Apple hardware to your "officially supported" list.
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