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Send an Open Source Project to COMDEX
chromatic writes "O'Reilly & Associates is working with COMDEX to create an Open Source Innovation Area. We've nominated 21 important, interesting, and useful applications. Here's your chance to vote on the six most deserving applications. Steve Mallet has more details in his weblog." There's lots of good choices for applications on the list as well. Chances are that you've used one of them at least once.
We all know that Linux is dying. It almost goes without saying. Yes, ever hapless Linux continues to be mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which distro is the worst off of an admittedly suffering Linux community. The numbers continue to decline for Linux but Debian may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for Debian continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
Linux leader Linus states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Linux are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Gentoo posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Gentoo users. Red Hat posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Gentoo posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Red Hat. A recent article put Debian at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Debian users. This is consistent with the number of Debian Usenet posts.
Due to the many troubles from SCO, abysmal sales and so on, Debian went out of business and was taken over by IBM who sell another troubled OS. Now IBM is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes Linux is already dead. It is a dead man walking.
Fact: Linux is dying