Comments for Limulus http://limulus.wordpress.com Eclectic Musings from an Eccentric Person :) Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on PCLinuxOS ‘Popularity’ by Finally I was banned !!! :D « PhobosK’s Blog http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/pclinuxos-popularity/#comment-5525 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:56:19 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/pclinuxos-popularity/#comment-5525 [...] 5. Very low popularity of the distro meaning bad support and a lot of problems… You may find this post useful too, though it is outdated but almost everything in it counts nowadays too… 6. Creepy [...]

]]> Comment on Playing DVDs in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) by Ian http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/playing-dvds-in-ubuntu-gutsy/#comment-5522 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:28:12 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/playing-dvds-in-ubuntu-gutsy/#comment-5522 Limulus, many thanks – looked everywhere for a solution to VLC not playing DVDs – most sites give you half the story or assume you have total, er, command of the command line… Much obliged!

]]> Comment on A picture that should be in every biology textbook by Limulus http://limulus.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/a-picture-that-should-be-in-every-biology-textbook/#comment-5521 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:51:52 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/?p=505#comment-5521 Read more: http://members.shaw.ca/Limulus/files/chr2/

]]> Comment on Ubuntu compatible hardware: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ by coyote_song http://limulus.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/ubuntu-compatible-hardware-sandisk-sansa-clip-plus/#comment-5518 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:02:18 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-5518 Thanks apterix! When Ubuntu 10/Gnome didn’t recognize it I googled this page and I had hour three of Mark Steyn filling in for Rush Limbaugh podcast loaded in no time!!!

]]> Comment on Ubuntu compatible hardware: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ by mziwisky http://limulus.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/ubuntu-compatible-hardware-sandisk-sansa-clip-plus/#comment-5460 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:50:49 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-5460 Thanks for the tip, apterix — was just about to give in and boot up windows!

]]> Comment on Ubuntu compatible hardware: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ by apterix http://limulus.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/ubuntu-compatible-hardware-sandisk-sansa-clip-plus/#comment-5436 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:40:34 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/?p=428#comment-5436 to solve:
Use MSC mode (usb settings) on the Clip+ with Linux systems. Not MTP and not Auto Defect.

]]> Comment on 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop by Bob Bigras http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5434 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:44:36 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5434 Following globalstats

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200908-201008

2010 is about to be windows 7 years

windows 7 – 19,43% (1,32% 1 years ago)
Linux (all distro) 0,79% (0,69% 1 years ago)

]]> Comment on 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop by Limulus http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5432 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:17:45 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5432 Goodness no :) Ten years is a long time from now, but what are the trends so far? Decidedly not in Microsoft’s favor, even if not in favor of Linux market-share either…

]]> Comment on 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop by Joel http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5431 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:29:19 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5431 Looks like yet another random Ubuntu release didn’t won the war after all :P

Wanna bet 2020 now?

]]> Comment on 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop by Tux Sux http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5430 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:17:27 +0000 http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/#comment-5430 there was a three-way battle between the Mac OS (classic), Microsoft Windows (DOS-based) and OS/2.

No there wasn’t. Apple was deep into its dark years and was losing business even to 16 bit Windows, which no one pretended was a stellar product. OS/2 was nowhere near the home market and didn’t pretend to be. The other big competitors, Amiga and Atari, were even deeper into their dark years than Apple. All this time Microsoft and IBM compatibles were the big joke with their primitive DOS console interface and beep-bloop PC speaker while all the rest had more advanced processors, GUIs, and synthesized sound. Those other guys failed (or were near mortally wounded) because they transitioned poorly into the 90s and left a gaping hole for someone to fill.

After Microsoft won the desktop wars, there was a period of calm, with Microsoft dominating, but a new generation of desktop OSs replacing the older ones: Mac OS X, MS Windows (NT-based) and Linux.

What? We’ve been hearing about how Linux is going to take over any time now since the early 90s. There’s even a blog dedicated toward recording these predictions:

http://penguinday.wordpress.com/

Hell, Linux even predates NT, which didn’t come around until 1993. Saying Linux wasn’t around until desktop NT (XP) and MacOS X is rewriting history. In 1998, Red Hat was readily available for purchase in box stores, and thugs ESR, RMS, Perens and got nationwide news coverage picketing software stores and pushing “Gahnew Lynnucks”. Also by ’98, Linux was big enough to have a “For Dummies” book published, and it was also large enough to attract more proprietary/commercial software than is available today, including a variety of Corel software, Netscape, and video game ports provided by Loki Software.

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