Tux Watch

The results of Linuxquestion.org’s Voting for its Members Choice Awards [here] have finally been announced [here] with Ubuntu taking the lead again on the Linux Distribution of the Year Choice by the website’s users with KDE being the dominant Desktop Environment. Knoppix still leads the show for Live Distros and Firefox continues to be the king of web browsers. Mysql continues to the bag Mr. Favorite choice while GIMP is the best Graphics App of the year. Cheers to Linuxquestion.org users, great going!

Here are the official results for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:

• Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (26.44%)
• Live Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (26.22%)
• Browser of the Year - Firefox (74.61%)
• Database of the Year - MySQL (61.68%)
• Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (89.79%)
• Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (56.58%)
• Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (41.93%)
• Video Authoring Application of the Year - Kino (27.81%)
• Audio Media Player Application of the Year - amaroK (57.07%)
• Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (67.07%)
• Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (69.51%)
• Messaging Application of the Year - Gaim (51.52%)
• Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (21.44%)
• IDE of the Year - Eclipse (34.47%)
• Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (52.74%)
• Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (38.42%)
• Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (65.60%)
• Security Application of the Year - nmap (20.94%)
• Windows on Linux Application of the Year - Wine (50.10%)
• Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (36.34%)
• Shell of the Year - bash (89.45%)

Part- 3. India Plays “IT” Open

India has been very prominent on the FOSS world news bulletins due to the fact that with one of the largest populations in the world, the country has been on preference list for Information Technology and Software Business Process Outsourcing for the western or developed world. Adding to this, almost every major FOSS development corporation has either Research and Development center in India as well as country operations including giant brand names like Red Hat, Novell, IBM etc. In India, the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) [here ] has been leading FOSS initiatives in the country.

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I really have no intentions of boring my readers but this FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) being injected by Oracle as means for self-promotion is getting worse. Recently, I found this Gartner Report offer in my mailbox. Really, why would Gartner even do a research on the comparison of Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Programme and Red Hat Linux when Oracle is using Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the first place? My possible hunch, Oracle is paying Gartner to these FUD reports, a common attribute of the closed source/proprietary source world member corporations. Remember that Microsoft was very active in using a similar strategy trying to defame the up rise of Linux on the Server side.

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TuxWatch.com Exclusive: I have been continuously analysing the various deals, new product launches and set backs of the Proprietary and FOSS industries globally and from my standpoint, the largest blooper for the year 2006 in corporate deals was the Microvell (Microsoft and Novell) deal whereas the grand winners of the corporate world deals are both Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Support Programme and RedHat Linux.

Microvell Deal: The Microsoft and Novell deal has done a couple of things for both the Proprietary and FOSS worlds. First it shocked both the

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Have you ever used a really small size Linux distribution? Well you will really be entertained with a Linux distribution called Damn Small Linux (DSL). I received my first ever go with DSL when I required a small Live CD for demonstration purposes and a good scientist friend of mine based in NY proposed that I try out DSL. As the name implies, DSL is a business card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Amazingly, this little Linux wonder has a complete functional desktop including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spell check (US English), a word-processor, three

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According to the Distrowatch website, Ubuntu Linux has maintained its position as the world’s most popular desktop Linux distribution as well as being totally free of cost. I have been using the Ubuntu Linux Desktop distribution for almost over 2 years now from it’s very first release and have recommended to all my clients and anyone seeking advice. The best achievements for my record so far has been that a bank is migrating it’s 1000 Desktop network

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