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Browser & OS Stats for June 2008

July 2nd, 2008
8 Comments Written by Ryan

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Now that the month of June has wrapped up we can see what browsers and operating systems have emerged as victorious. In both segments Microsoft is still dominating the market according to Net Applications, but there are some competitors that continue to crawl up behind them. In fact both Windows and Internet Explorer dropped in market share for June 2008.

I've got all of the detailed stats below including how each browser and operating system

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New Ubuntu 8.10 Theme Has Even More Brown

June 30th, 2008
15 Comments Written by Ryan

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One of the the most frequent comments I hear from new Ubuntu users is that the default theme for the operating system is a tad too brown. I kind of like the current Ubuntu theme, but it was supposed to get an overhaul with the last release. The new default theme has got pushed back to Ubuntu 8.10, and we're getting our first glimpse of the new theme now that Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha

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Compiz Fusion on Linux has definitely received a lot of attention because of their innovative thinking, and the latest thing to come out of their lab is a plugin called Stackswitch. To put it simply it is an application switcher, but it comes packed with pizzazz. Once it's activated it angles all of your windows so that it appears as though they are laying flat on

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openSUSE 11.0 Makes Compiz Fusion Easy

June 19th, 2008
11 Comments Written by Ryan

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Back in October 2007 openSUSE 10.3 hit the streets in style as it always does, and it came packed with the features that keep geeks on the bleeding-edge. In true Novell style openSUSE 11.0 is busting down the doors with over 200 new features including a redesigned installer, faster package management, KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and more!

Personally I've been an openSUSE user for years, but have found myself migrating towards

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Wine 1.0 & CrossOver 7.0 Released Today

June 18th, 2008
3 Comments Written by Ryan

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It took an astonishing 15 years to complete, but Wine 1.0 has finally been released! Wine, for those of you that don't know, serves as a way to run some Windows applications in Linux without the need for an emulator. The team has done their best

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Supercomputers have always been interesting to me because of the sheer power that they harness, and someday I would like to see one first-hand. According to Wikipedia though a "quad-core Xeon workstation running at 2.66 GHz will outperform a multimillion dollar Cray C90 supercomputer used in the early 1990s." So having you're own personal supercomputer isn't out of the question, but don't expect

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Why Linux Hasn’t Gone Mainstream Yet

June 6th, 2008
57 Comments Written by Pieter

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Editor’s Note: This post was written by guest author Pieter De Decker, who is also the developer of the free USBsyncer and iPodCALsync! Feel free to read past articles that Pieter has written.

Even though Linux is more user-friendly than it ever was, it has yet to catch on with the average Joe. Having used Ubuntu Linux for over a year, I'm

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