Novell moving to Gnome didn't come as a suprise to me, it makes quite alot of sense, the amount of apps starting up on linux that are generally GTK+ based is greatly out weighing the QT and KDE apps.
However don't forget Gnome and KDE have similar goals, and so are thus in competition. If Gnome is being favoured more, then this is just more fuel for the fire in the KDE camps.
With this move aswell it does leave a gap in the linux distrobution market, for a KDE-centric distro.
I spose the PSP and GP2X markets over lap, but i believe the GP2X will always be cheaper. If we take linux as an example, about 85% of all software for linux is open-source based, this same trend would naturally continue on the GP2X, even tho Game Park Holdings have included the DRM feature to help and encourage commercial games. Take a look at the PSP, it costs what £179 on play.com/amazon with a memory stick OR 1game, with case and headphones. Each game will cost about £29.99 as well as the UMD DVDs. Whereas because the GP2X is based on Linux it would hopefully attract alot of Linux user's attension and thus there would [hopefully] be a open-source gaming market for it. My point is, get a PSP and you'll be forever buying games, and accessories. Get a GP2X and rip your CDs or Torrent a Video/album/Movie (questionable leagality tho), and then play an fun Open-source game. ableit Tux Racer or Plane Shift, or a Quake/Doom variant.
Why is there this feeling of Windows has to die, Linux must take over? okay its fair enough to monitor the linux uptake, because it can spark confidence in the community, and also encourage developers to take into account the rapidness of the uptake, however these figures should not be compared to other OSs.
We also have to remember, the majority of users don't switch OSs just because they think Windows is Evil, its almost always down to the "User Needs".
As for all this media coverage over Linux Vs Windows, and TCO Campaigns, when will see news of NEW and INNOVATIVE operating systems, like i recently stumbled on SKYOS(http://www.skyos.org/) which looks promising, and is commercial, none of the usual UNIX FOSS dervatives.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." --John Lennon
In my opinion music is (or at least) should be free. How can a record company slap a price on someone's guitar playing and voice? I could understand paying for the media, eg a CD because they cost money to produce, and i can understand paying a little extra for a CD for the marketing costs and distrobution. However the song itself is just recorded sound produced by someone with natural talent, and even so in ogg format it costs nothing to produce. The artists can nowadays even record they're own tracks using inexpensive computer software or better yet open-source software like audacity?
Why don't the musicans instead of trying to get rich and famous just go and release they're music in the Creative Commons License, if the band were that good they would be famous because of hearsay.
It could be like the Open-Source software world at the moment, guys with day jobs who program in the evenings, why can't musicans get a day job and write and play/record by evening?
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Novell moving to Gnome didn't come as a suprise to me, it makes quite alot of sense, the amount of apps starting up on linux that are generally GTK+ based is greatly out weighing the QT and KDE apps. However don't forget Gnome and KDE have similar goals, and so are thus in competition. If Gnome is being favoured more, then this is just more fuel for the fire in the KDE camps. With this move aswell it does leave a gap in the linux distrobution market, for a KDE-centric distro.
I spose the PSP and GP2X markets over lap, but i believe the GP2X will always be cheaper. If we take linux as an example, about 85% of all software for linux is open-source based, this same trend would naturally continue on the GP2X, even tho Game Park Holdings have included the DRM feature to help and encourage commercial games. Take a look at the PSP, it costs what £179 on play.com/amazon with a memory stick OR 1game, with case and headphones. Each game will cost about £29.99 as well as the UMD DVDs. Whereas because the GP2X is based on Linux it would hopefully attract alot of Linux user's attension and thus there would [hopefully] be a open-source gaming market for it. My point is, get a PSP and you'll be forever buying games, and accessories. Get a GP2X and rip your CDs or Torrent a Video/album/Movie (questionable leagality tho), and then play an fun Open-source game. ableit Tux Racer or Plane Shift, or a Quake/Doom variant.
Why is there this feeling of Windows has to die, Linux must take over? okay its fair enough to monitor the linux uptake, because it can spark confidence in the community, and also encourage developers to take into account the rapidness of the uptake, however these figures should not be compared to other OSs.
We also have to remember, the majority of users don't switch OSs just because they think Windows is Evil, its almost always down to the "User Needs".
As for all this media coverage over Linux Vs Windows, and TCO Campaigns, when will see news of NEW and INNOVATIVE operating systems, like i recently stumbled on SKYOS(http://www.skyos.org/) which looks promising, and is commercial, none of the usual UNIX FOSS dervatives.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." --John Lennon In my opinion music is (or at least) should be free. How can a record company slap a price on someone's guitar playing and voice? I could understand paying for the media, eg a CD because they cost money to produce, and i can understand paying a little extra for a CD for the marketing costs and distrobution. However the song itself is just recorded sound produced by someone with natural talent, and even so in ogg format it costs nothing to produce. The artists can nowadays even record they're own tracks using inexpensive computer software or better yet open-source software like audacity? Why don't the musicans instead of trying to get rich and famous just go and release they're music in the Creative Commons License, if the band were that good they would be famous because of hearsay. It could be like the Open-Source software world at the moment, guys with day jobs who program in the evenings, why can't musicans get a day job and write and play/record by evening?