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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
Frequently cited statistics about the market share of Linux on the desktop have put the percentage at around 1%. However, this number comes from analyses provided by Net Applications and is likely not representative of all desktop users. A more accurate number comes from the Wikimedia Foundation, which shows the percentage of Linux on the desktop at 4.9% for February 2012.

Red Hat Donates to Organizations Supporting Open Source
For more than a decade Red Hat has steadily increased revenue and profit, and recently announced that it crossed the $1 billion revenue milestone, which makes it the first Linux and Open Source company to achieve this level of success. In order to celebrate the occasion, Red Hat decided to donate $100,000 to the "future of open source"... Read more

Sauerbraten - First Person Shooter with Dynamic Map Editing
Sauerbraten is a popular free and open source computer game for Linux. It is a "First Person Shooter", that is, when you play it you see the world of the game from the perspective of the character that you control, giving you the impression of moving in the 3-dimensional space created by the game. The main activity of this character is running around in a fantastic world and shooting enemies or evil creatures... Read more

Terminate Processes With ps And kill
What can you do when processes wear out their welcome and stick around longer than you would like them to? This article introduces the commands ps and kill. Combined, they are the Arnold Schwarzenegger equivalent among the Linux commands... Read more



 


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