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Vote for Mandriva's New Name

6th of July 2012 03:20 GMT

Mandriva S.A., through Charles Schulz, posted a very interesting announcement on their blog, asking users to vote for the new name of the Mandriva Linux distribution. Wait, what? Why a new name? Well, long story short, it looks like Mandriva S.A. wants to separate the Mandriva community and the distribution from th...

Canonical Publishes In-Depth Survey Results

4th of February 2009 07:02 GMT

Four months ago, in September 2008, Canonical Ltd. started a survey for their Ubuntu Server Edition client, with the main purpose of finding how it was used in organizations, regardless of their type or size. Today, Canonical, through Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing, announced the end of the project and the ...

Take the 2007 Linux Desktop Survey!

23rd of November 2007 09:57 GMT

The use of the Linux operating system on desktop computer continues to grow, as shown by the Linux Foundation annual survey. This will continue to run until the end of this month.The Linux Foundation, previously known as Free Standards Group and the Open Source Developer Labs (the two groups merged in January, this y...

Survey Reveals Users' Preference for Linux instead of Windows

25th of July 2007 10:30 GMT

The first global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise domain is now available, thanks to Alfresco Software Inc. The survey's results revealed something that most of the open source community members already knew, the fact that Linux has a highly increasing popularity, coming to ...

Take the Konsole Usage Survey Now!

19th of March 2007 15:00 GMT

Konsole is a free terminal emulator for the KDE desktop environment. It is a complete rewrite, not like other terminal emulators that are derivatives of rxvt or xterm. Konsole has many interesting and innovative features such as tabbed interface, history, color schemes and bookmarks. Konsole was originally written b...