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Linux Market Share On Desktop Increased By About 50% In 2011

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com

Desktop Linux market share had a growth of about 50% last year according to the recent data by NetMarketShare. If we look at the data for year 2010, there was no growth at all. However, in 2011, starting from 0.96% market share in February, desktop Linux market share ended at 1.41%.

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Enabling Mandriva Repositories

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This short Mandriva tutorial and video explains where to access the Mandriva repositories and how to enable them for the first time on The Mandriva desktop using GNOME as the desktop environment.

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Get a Linux desktop to make Windows and OS X users weep with envy

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Good looks was never supposed to be a priority for Linux apps. It wasn't so long ago that we seemed to be struggling to get even basic eye-candy such as anti-aliased fonts to work on the Linux desktop, but things have changed almost beyond recognition. It's now fair to say that the Linux desktop is at the forefront of visual effect, a cornucopia of eye-candy overflowing on to your desktop.

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The old vs. the new Linux desktop

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You want to know the funniest thing is about compared Corel Linux 1.0, released in 1999, with a typical modern desktop Linux -- say, Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn't changed.

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The State Of Linux Desktop Functionality

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For years technology fans have been fighting over one of the most foolish mottos ever mentioned by the Linux community: “the year of the Linux desktop.” So rather than continuing the usual arguments any further, I want to instead take an honest look at where today's desktop Linux distributions are from a casual user perspective.

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The GNU/Linux Desktop and Borrowed Assumptions about Usability

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Is the GNU/Linux desktop headed in the right direction? Recently, I have started to wonder.

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Is the Linux Desktop Too Much Like Windows, Mac OS X?

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A complaint you hear quite often is that the Linux desktop environments, which mostly refers to KDE and GNOME, are trying too hard to be like Windows and Mac OS X.

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Linux: I've got to admit it's getting better

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I recently installed Linux (Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” to be exact) on my not-so-old pentium 4 HT machine, the very same computer where different Linux distros have been installed over the course of two years. What struck me most after this very latest installation is how Linux has evolved and has become a more than capable desktop operating system.

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Created by HeresJohnny 15 years 18 weeks ago – Made popular 15 years 18 weeks ago
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The Year of the Linux Desktop

http://thefreedesktop.blogspot.com

I have heard every year predictions of each year being the year of the Linux desktop. I've got some bad news for you. It's not coming soon. Not this decade, probably not the next. The good news? We don't need a year of the Linux desktop.

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Created by charlesgoodwin 15 years 28 weeks ago – Made popular 15 years 28 weeks ago
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Survey says ... Linux desktop is ever more popular

http://desktoplinux.com

The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than 10,000 people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported in.

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