OSDL, has published its first year-end report on the desktop Linux ecosystem. The report covers various issues like improvements, compatibility and interoperability, standards, new applications and market growth. It concluded with The past year was a year of steady growth and development for desktop Linux. [Continue]
Multiple browsers on multiple platforms have always been one of the thorns in designing, and even developing web applications. In spite of the standards, each has its own whims and fancies of supporting a selective set. It becomes frustrating when you have to support a browser built for a specific platform, especially when you don’t use it, like Microsoft Internet Explorer built for Microsoft Windows is for a designer/developer in Linux. [Continue]
One big disadvantage of Linux today - simply too many distributions to choose from. It is one thing to decide to switch from Windows to Linux, but another to try to find out how many are there. Well, someone knows this and has collected the A to Z desktop Linux distributions (via Linux and Open Source Blog), with corresponding details. [Continue]