Almost 1 Decade Old, Today Red Hat’s testing ground and all around number 2 Linux distribution Fedora, turns 9 today. A post by Fabian Affolter reveals on planet.fedora the historic day in which the project’s homepage was first registered. Fedora Core 1 The good ‘ol days… For many of our readers, the good ‘ol days came [...]
Trinity Desktop Environment Needs Your Help!
The Trinity Desktop Environment, responsible for maintaining, packaging and distributing (and updating!) the now classic KDE 3.5.x series, is now holding a spring fundraiser. The team is looking to raise $2000 to support the group.s costs for building, maintaining and development on their new Qt 4 integration engine. From the announcement: The TDE project relies on [...]
The Linux Marketshare Myth
A recent report from NetMarketShare has made a bit of a stir by claiming that Linux’s userbase has finally broken 1% of the desktop market. Some of the reporting on this news has put a tongue in cheek spin on it, while others have dismissed it as a reporting fluke and point to the data collected by other firms [...]