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Hoo boy. This is a bit of a... wow. The end of that sentence contained more expletives than I'd like to share. Currently one company - Microsoft - controls 98%% of the desktop OS market, as a result, one company - Microsoft - will largely determine how desktop computing will evolve over the coming decades. Years, maybe. Decades, Microsoft will be controlling 50%% or less, assuming we
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Exaile — versantile audio player for GNOME ,----[ Quote ] | Exaile is a wonderful application for listening to music in a GNOME | environment. Although it could be considered a newcomer to the music player | world and we are not hearing much about it, I have been using Exaile for | quite a while now and I think it is the best application of
IcedTea: The First 100%% Compliant Open-Source Java ,----[ Quote ] | This week it was announced that the RedHat-initiated IcedTea project, along | with OpenJDK, has reached 100%% compliance with the Java Test Compatibility | Kit (TCK), officially becoming the first completely open-source | (GPL-licensed) Java implementation to pass the TCK. `---- http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/06/icedtea_tck
On 2008-05-27, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> wrote: This is probably going to open a large 55-gallon drum of worms, but I'm curious. I love worms. They are great composters and produce superior fertilizer and soil conditioners. Bring on the worms! Linux (or a Linux distro, more properly) has many problems (most of them minor compared to certain other
