According to StatCounter, it’s taken roughly two years for Redmond’s latest to surpass XP and become the world’s most popular operating system. October 2011 marks the first time that Windows 7 has overtaken XP globally, with a 40 percent share of the market versus the latter’s 38. As for Vista, it’s been holding steady at around 11. Not that…
After 6 months in the making the latest release of Ubuntu – version 11.10 – is now available to download. Sporting a retuned Unity interface, new and improved features, and even some new applications Ubuntu 11.10 certainly promises a lot – but does it live up to the hype? Ubuntu 11.10 builds upon the groundwork…
The following video from the Linux Foundation distills 20 years of Linux history into 3 short minutes. It melds the interesting and informational, starting at how Linux came to be and arriving at today where the virtual dominance of Linux in computing – both seen and unseen – is utterly impressive in light of its humble beginnings from a bedroom…