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The article started not that bad, but not through the end "This is why you should support Android " Seriously ??? Quoting mr RMS : "Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom." http://digitizor.com/2011/09/20/richard-stallman-android-free-software/ I am not here for bashing android, but where are the GNU phones folks ? openmoko ? meego/maemo ? tizen ?

Shuttleworth has not only disregarded the community's complaints about Unity, but now his blog is actively deleting and censoring any further criticism. Pleas for them to offer a desktop that actually looks and works like a desktop, if not as a replacement for Unity then at least an offering with an equal amount of support, are being treated with a "we know best, go away you silly peon" response. Sorry Mark, you are not Steve Jobs, you can't get away with that routine. Unity is a disaster, and when you have Linux luminaries like Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond switching their desktops to Xfce, you know you're heading in the wrong direction.

I myself have also made the switch to Xfce, and after doing so, and even after having been a loyal Ubuntu user for five years, I'm wondering what's the point of staying with Ubuntu at all if not for what used to be a gorgeous desktop. I did a little research and found that aside from the formerly gorgeous desktop, all of the things that I loved about Ubuntu were actually things about Debian. Now that Unity has replaced the good desktop, the only advantage Ubuntu has over Debian is a better installer.

Yes, Unity will probably be more at home on a device that has no keyboard and mouse, such as smartphones and tablets. But competing with Android (not to mention Apple) is going to be a tough sell there. So why are they blowing it all by alienating their existing installed base?

.co.cc is not an officially recognized second level domain. It is just sub-domains given out by a Korean company that owns the domain http://co.cc/ So, Google is actually removing just one domain with 11 million sub-domains. (source http://digitizor.com/2011/07/06/google-removes-cc-domains/ )

Rob Osherove was joking when he tweeted that VB6 is being open sourced. If you look at his tweets, he followed that tweet with another with a link to "video of the official announcement" which is actually a link to Never Gonna Give Up. Looks like he was rickrolling. Anyway, Dough Seven, the Senior Product Manager of the Visual Team, had also tweeted that the rumors are not true. https://twitter.com/#!/dseven/status/71352709785198592 via http://digitizor.com/2011/05/20/microsoft-visual-basic-6-not-open-source/

See for example: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefox-chrome-opera,2558-4.html, or http://digitizor.com/2010/12/18/opera-11-benchmarked/ Opera places last in the memory usage stakes in all the tests. It is also slower than Chrome in most benchmarks. Firefox is probably the best overall for memory use, but I think for performance/memory tradeoff you cannot beat Chrome.

>Seriously, I cannot fathom why people are so hung up on this.

Let me give it a try.

It was a combination of a couple of things.

1. The "my way or the highway" attitude.
2. Making the change right before the last freezes with no opportunity for community comment. Annoys people and makes them think what they thought was about "us" is actually about "me" (Shuttleworth).
3. Yeah, so you'll say it's free. True. Mark has the legal right to make the change. And people have the legal right to speak their mind.
4. Lame, mutually contradictory excuses from Mark like "The left side is closer to where the mouse is" and "I was thinking of doing something on the right side for the next release". If the mouse is always on the left side, why put stuff on the right?
5. So did he do something on the right in the next release? No.
6. Cramming everything into the left side is hardly a win for usability. It's different on the Mac because they don't have the menu in the app window.
7. The huge blank area on the right is supposed to be a big "easy to grab" area for noobs to drag an app window. The problem is some apps (like gedit) work like that. Others in the default install (Firefox) don't. For the latter, you have to drag starting from the actual "titlebar" area, which you can't distinguish because it's the same color as the menubar. Try explaining that to your mom. (The sheer insanity of the titlebar that is there, but you're supposed to know it's there should be apparent to normal people, always a check on the designs of geeks.)
8. Oh, but you say, instead of dragging, you can select Move from the window control menu in the lefthand corner? Mark, in his wisdom, dropped that menu to make space for cramming the close/max/min buttons on the left. On Linux it reduced a crucial aspect of discoverability and function (moving a window to a specific workspace with the keyboard).

The above problems could have been hashed out in the normal collaboration process. But Mark didn't do that, choosing to make the change unilaterally at the last moment.

That's why people are upset. And Wayland/Unity further confirm the attitude.

The statement This comes a week after Trend Micro released a mobility security app for Android. is pure fact.

There is no opinion in there, only the one you inferred in your head. And at least it was a fact, not some leading rhetorical question that is obviously known to be false by the asker (think TV news stations and their "Could XXX be the YYY that kills you? More at 11." bullshit).

And that's pretty much what T linked FA did with their title...
Either The Trend Micro Chairman Is Completely Clueless Or He Is Spreading FUD

The problem is when editorials are submitted as "news" instead of spending 10 seconds googling for the actual source.

Now here's some editorializing for you, since I'm a proud member in this gallery of peanuts:

Yes, it's damn fishy and damn obvious that TM is using this as a "free" marketing ploy. It's a press release, you know where those things usually come from? Marketing departments. I would bet that that Mr. Chang himself didn't even make the statement, but maybe approved it be released under his name during some board meeting.

Linux can't stop Joe Sixpack from downloading malware from the Internet and installing it on his computer.

And neither can Windows, yet it is always blamed for someone installing malware on their systems yet when people install Linux malware all these excuses are made about how it's the fault of the user not the system.

I think Chris Blizzard should read the following article: http://digitizor.com/2010/08/12/how-much-faster-is-konqueror-with-webkit/ As WebKit is proving to be faster than Firefox, et al.

Is there -any- possible reason for this ./ article to link to http://digitizor.com/2010/08/16/happy-17th-birthday-debian-and-some-interesting-history/ instead of linking to the _official_ birthday page: http://thank.debian.net/ Also, like kwebbles mentioned, it's really sad you sad to bring up Ubuntu. It's Debian's birthday, you insensitive clods.

At the bottom of the fine article is a link to a previous benchmark they ran between opera 10.6, chrome 5, chromium 6, and firefox 4 beta 1.

In the sun spider test, Chromium 6 is fastest, opera second, and firefox 4 last - but the difference is fairly narrow, apart from firefox which is heavily beaten.

In the V8 test, chromium 6 beats all, and chrome 5 edges out opera. Firefox 4 again is beaten heavily.

Yes, jaegermonkey will make a big difference to mozilla performance - but given the rate chrome 6 is better than chrome 5 (and 6 was recently promoted to beta) it does seem likely that google will continue to outperform mozilla, even when jaegermonkey comes out.

Of course, this is rather the point of chrome - google uses AJAX heavily in its services (gmail, google docs, google apps etc etc) and if it wants to win at shifting the desktop away from local apps and into SaaS aka the cloud, then it needs a browser that can do that as fast as possible. Mozilla has a much broader set of goals - and of course a lot of legacy code to deal with.

Whitelisting is a good approach for certain locked down, single purpose terminals, but for general computing you might just as well deploy Ubuntu to your users instead...

That is until they download Ubuntu malware.

They havn't included Kopete, which is the default IM ckient in KDE, in the instruction. And I demand they include Kopete. :/

Relax bro. Get hold of ur emotional volcano and take a look at this : http://digitizor.com/2010/02/11/how-to-enable-facebook-chat-in-kopete-without-plugins/