How Desktop Linux Continues To Survive Despite A Low Market Share

How does desktop Linux survive despite a low (3%) market share and no multi-billion dollar organizations backing it? How does new versions of Linux distros come out every six months while Windows takes years.

I am using GNU/Linux for the past two years and often hear a comment from some of my friends – Linux has just 1% market share, it will die one day. Their notion maybe fairly true, GNU/Linux has no big company like Microsoft as a financial backing, nor a significant market share to attract more and more people and to its base. Now there are people switching to Linux everyday, still the desktop share of all Linux distros combined has remained below 3% of all computers since the beginning of personal computing era. We often hear that 20XX year will be the year of Linux desktop, and a whole lot of people will switch to GNU/Linux distros from Windows or Mac. But that year never comes, and frankly speaking, will never come at least in this decade. There are a many satisfied people using Windows in their computers, and I find no reason of them switching to Linux straight away.

Change Server Forms To AJAX Forms By Just Changing A Function - Power Of QCubed

This is my first post about QCubed, about one of the most impressive features - changing get/post server forms to AJAX forms by just changing a function.

Lately, I am into much development work using PHP. This is the last year of my college, and I have to submit two projects this year which carry 25% of total marks. I had always admired PHP before, and even attempted an application or two, but its QCubed that changed my entire outlook of PHP.

So when I showed the TimeAssistant program to my friend and brother Vaibhav Kaushal, among other notable things (old coding style, etc) he suggested to give QCubed a try. After all programming frameworks are there to make your lives easier and its quite impossible to see a web application today that doesn't use a framework. So I downloaded the code, and got started with it.

On Women, Goddesses And Rapes

If a woman's worth is just beneath her clothes, and her prize beneath her legs, then abolish all women goddesses from the Hindu culture. Some of us are saying that the world is going to end on 21st this month. You are wrong if you live in India. For us, the world has already ended.

Things have changed in India dramatically. The fact that I am blogging here (after ages) simply means that it has effected me a lot, a lot. And it's not just one Delhi incident that happened last Sunday night. It's a serial that gets repeated now and then, every year, every week, every day.

I am not giving sympathy to that girl, whoever she is, wherever she lives, whatever she does. What was her fault? Going out independently and doing what se liked to do? Isn't that a right of every human being out there? And why was she chosen for such a brutal, violent crime?

Why I Am Again Restarting This Blog

What keeps me to love this blog? Why I am starting it off again after a lapse of 6 months?

So apparently, my last blog post here was on 17th of May, that's a little less than seven months ago according to my calculation. A lot of changes have happened in my life in this period, and life is moving faster than expected. For example, I am already in the last year of my college grads, and struggling to keep pace with studies. My friends have changed, though some close ones are just the same :-) and as expected, I still don't have a girlfriend. This is the first time since my adulthood that I have been single for over an year, and I am kinda proud to say that.

List Of Best Best Free Tools you can use to Help keep your Linux Systems Secure (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian etc)

This page lists the best security tools availiable in Linux. From malware detection, antivirus to network analysis, we have all here and free too.

This is a guest post by Brianne Walter is a blogger who also happens to be a tech freak. She loves spending on tech stuff and has recently bought a new Sony Ericsson Spiro. These days she is busy in writing an article on Toyota Land Cruiser. If you would like to write a guest post for us, head over to this page.

The secure nature of Linux based systems scores over Windows and other operating systems but the complexity of use of Linux systems works against greater acceptance for these operating systems. Windows is much more susceptible to malware attacks and the security of the systems is often compromised if appropriate anti-malware and internet security applications are not used. Such tools are not necessary on Linux systems as the system is extremely secure. Even then, to be on the safer side, Linux users have open source applications available to them to protect systems and networks against unauthorized access.

The Tor Project - Preserving Anonymity Online - The Open Source Way

How to deal with being anonymous in web? With governments and social sites already tracking you, it becomes important to preserve your anonymity online. This page deals with the concept of staying anonymous online and also about Tor project, how it works etc.

This is a guest post by Jenny Florence who is a full time professional write. If you would like to write a guest post for us, have a look at this page.

Online anonymity is a big issue across the globe at the moment. In many places such as Iran and Egypt it has helped to protect ordinary people while they organize and protest against the political regimes that oppress them. In these situations, most democratic governments have been very supportive and have spoken strongly in favor of an anonymous worldwide web. However, the situation seems to change when the problems and demonstrations are closer to home.

In Britain, for example, there were several days of continuous riots last year in major cities across the country, which interfered with freedom of movement in the affected areas and in many cases prevented food, fuel and pallet delivery. Britain's Prime Minister was even reported at one point as saying the government should have the right to close down social networks and communication systems such as Blackberry Messenger which he believed were being used to help organize the riots.

Comparing Performance Benchmarks and Stability: Arch Linux vs Ubuntu 12.04 vs Windows 7 32 bit Detailed Results

Comparing and benchmaring performance and stability of Arch Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support and Windows 7 32 bit OSes using mprime (Prime 95) and systester full detailed results.

 Well there have been much talks about this before. Linux fans always say that Linux is actually faster than Windows in all respects. Also I have heard people saying that Arch Linux is faster than other distros, but there have been little concrete proof to validate that saying. I agree that after switching to Arch from Fedora, I find apps and boot a bit faster than before but thats only basis of my sense, no figures attached. To find out if its really faster, I conducted a series of tests on Windows 7, Arch Linux and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS all 32 bit OSes. Phoronix conducted a similar test before but that was in days of Linux 2.x series kernel and Gnome desktop. Linux has gone through a major change since then, and its time that we benchmark them again.

Build Your Own Robot at Home - Robo-Manual for Starters - Full Tutorial with Video

In this post we will show you in detail how can you build your own robot at cheap cost at your home alone or with a group of friends. Full explanation is given with pictures and circuit diagram wherever felt needed. The robot can be controlled by remote and moved with it. We also have a video at the end of tutorial showing its working

This is a guest post by Debdeep Dey. He is a Electrical Engineering student studying in Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group of Institutions and is a technology freak. The robot was jointly made by him, Anik Gowswami and Sudip Banerjee. If you would like to write a guest post in this blog sharing something you made or any other topic, have a look at this page.

Okay as the heading suggests….this is a typical robot manual for the beginners. This is also my 1st robot. But the main problem I faced about building my first robot was a perfect robo-manual in the internet. After weeks of rigorous searching, I finally landed into an ebook by David R. Shircliff titled “Build a remote controlled robot”. There were a lot of chapters to read, and finally I had to isolate the few materials that I needed.

Installing Arch Linux Base System - Detailed and Easy Step by Step Tutorial

This page gives you a detailed step by step guide of how to install the Arch Linux Base System on your PC or Laptop. We have covered all the steps with screenshots and all the details of configuration files and other settings have been included.

In our previous post, we have covered as why should you install Arch Linux and what are its best features that sets it apart from other distros. Today in this post we will cover as how to install the base system. As Arch aims to be a user centric, minimalist distro, we have covered this tutorial in two parts. In part one or this part, you will learn about how to install the basic system. After the base system is setup, you will have a full Linux installation running, but without the GUI or DE. In part two, we will tell our readers as how to install and configure a graphical interface and a desktop environment to use it for your daily needs.

Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution and doesn't require much state of art hardware to run on. 256 megabytes of RAM will be more than enough for the command line install or a home server. If you plan to also install a graphical desktop environment (which more users would), I suggest you have atleast 512 mB of RAM for some light DEs such as XFCE, LXDE or OpenBox. If you plan to install Gnome and/or KDE, atleast 1 gB of RAM is recommended, though that will be more than enough. I have installed Arch Linux as my primary OS, and it takes 176 mB of RAM with a full fledged Gnome 3 desktop and 260 mB of RAM with servers and a workstation running.

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