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Friday, August 24, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: Linux use doubles, and then some, on the desktop

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Friday, August 24, 2007

* Linux use doubles, and then some, on the desktop
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* I, Programmer

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LINUX USE DOUBLES, AND THEN SOME, ON THE DESKTOP

Open source: We're always skeptical of vendor-driven or funded surveys
and while DesktopLinux.com does not technically sell the OS, this study
is to be taken with a grain or two of salt. That said, the organization
"found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users in the past year,"
Paul Krill writes in Survey: Desktop Linux use grows. The top choice is
Ubuntu, with Firefox the most popular browser and Thunderbird the
reigning e-mail client. Columnist's corner: With new iterations of Lotus
Notes, Domino and Sametime, IBM just might be getting something very few
folks would have expected: a second... ...

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Startups look to hit spammers' weak spots, EU accuses Rambus of violating
competition law, IBM might open source Jazz, and more LISTEN!... ...

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I, PROGRAMMER

Careers: Writing code, one could argue, is an art form. But at least one
inventor, Gordon Morrison, wants to change that and actually take the
art out of it with a fatal injection of engineering. Morrison, in fact,
has created a rules-based software development architecture to eliminate
the need for conventional computer languages. "Now, I'm no troglodyte,"
Nick Corcodilos responds in I, programmer. "I'm all for advancing the
state of the art. But I see catastrophe brewing behind the growing
attitude that technology can support itself." Columnist's corner: What
with all the anger The Wall Street Journal stirred by printing... ...

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