Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri published a brave blog post today. It starts with “poor Linux.” Can you guess what follows?

Windows 7 will surpass Windows XP in market share this year, market research firm Gartner predicts. Chrome, Android and WebOS will have no impact on the PC market at least until the end of 2015, the firm said today.

We recently stumbled across a fascinating chart that illustrates the growth of Linux over time. At almost 20 years of age, Linus Torvald’s baby has grown to 370 different and active distributions, but it is still waiting for its big moment to gain market share.

Nearly 20 years after Linus Torvalds’ first Linux post and after 39 major releases for the Linux 2.6 kernel, the OS inventor signed off on Linux 3.0. The new kernel is now available as RC1.

German security company released a version of Firefox 4 that runs independent of the operating system on a client PC and automatically contains malware that may be downloaded via Firefox.

Canonical today announced its latest Ubuntu Linux release, version 11.04 Natty Narwhal. It follows the trend toward smaller screens with a streamlined interface, but developer Canonical says it will not follow the tablet frenzy – at least not  yet.

This week Microsoft effectively purchased the intellectual property behind Novell. Boy, this was a long time in coming and represents kind of a strange page in history. Microsoft initially wanted to buy Novell in the early 90s when Microsoft split with Ray Norda, who ran Novell at the time – and did not believe regulatory approval was possible. He nixed the deal, but had those two companies merged, a lot of things would be different. For one, Eric Schmidt wouldn’t be running Google today and I doubt Linux would have gone as far.

Last Wednesday was The Day. IE9 had me convinced that it was time to finally leave Vista behind and move to Windows 7, ignoring the iron rule that you should never change a running (Windows) system. I got what I deserved: A failed Windows 7 upgrade that destroyed my Vista installation, a screwed up hard drive with new partitions and useless support from Microsoft. Having spent more than 40 hours to restore my PC, once again, I am ready to leave my wimpy self behind. It is time to switch to Linux.

Apple’s iOS operating system that is currently running on iPhones, iPads and the iPad Touch has surpassed Linux in market share. However, data also suggests that Blackberry OS has surpassed iOS market share in the U.S. last month.

MessageLabs has released a new issue of its monthly intelligence report, which reveals interesting statistics of spam originating from client computers that are infected by botnets. Not surprisingly, most spam comes from Windows users, but Linux systems are five times more likely to be sending spam than Windows. And: There is virtually no spam that is sent from Apple Mac computers.