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It's still somewhat of an offensive phrase. I prefer to put it this way: "Ubuntu is the AOL of Linux". :D Or as the joke goes: "What's the difference between an Ubuntu user and an AOL user? Ten...

I have a gifted laptop from circa 2005 with an AMD Sempron processor (32-bit, 1 core), 512MB RAM and a 4200rpm 75GB IDE hard drive. Needless to say, Windows 8 isn't much of an option here. However, I...

Linus <> Linux. He hates everything and everything that isn't exactly the way he would do it is garbage in his mind.. If we considered every negative comment from Linus we'd have to throw everything...

Is what he's working on going to be readily usable by everyone or some custom hack that's only going to be usable by Canonical?

With lots of Linux pundits declaring recently that Ubuntu is the future of the Linux desktop, I think the majority of us who don't use Ubuntu simply don't count anymore. :-( It's gotten to the point...

Sabayon has come a long way since I tried switching to it from XP in 2010 and two updates that killed my desktop almost made me go to Windows 7 instead (OpenSUSE kept me in Linux). It's a lot more...

Now if only we could get USB support, WINE would be nearly perfect.... :(

Please don't give Mark Shuttleworth any ideas. "Hmmm.....LUnity....."

...finished. :D

Linux users don't seem to be happy unless their software is in a perpetual alpha status. :p

OpenSUSE 12.1 users were on KDE 4.7.2. Now with 12.2 they're on 4.8.4. That's an improvement... so what's the problem? Anyone who wants to risk stability can install the latest... anything... from...

I play The Sims 1 in Virtualbox. :-) Playing "stupid games" would be a huge boon for VM software.

Am I correct in understanding two things:

1) VMWare has OpenGL acceleration of a Linux guest,...

I'm with bachinchi; the entire purpose of the article was to announce WINE defaulting to "off-screen rendering", yet never bothered to explain what that was or what it could mean for users. As such,...

If the benchmarks were compiled on each test system, and the test systems use different compilers, isn't this mostly just benchmarking the compiler performance rather than the components of the OS...

KDE doesn't work fine on your netbook? I run KDE on a laptop with a single core 1.8GHZ 32bit AMD Sempron processor with 512MB DDR and a 4200rpm 70GB IDE hard drive. I tried XFCE and LXDE on it, but...

If by "bloated" you mean "has features", then yes, it is. :-) LXDE can't even list your most recently used files and programs. This is why Windows users laugh at us. A ZDNet article this week was...

1. "Bloated" is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but it's really meaningless to a discussion unless it's defined.

2. What complexity do you feel is achieved by stripping away features? As...

KDE isn't "bloated"... it has features. That said, I run OpenSUSE 12.1 with KDE on a laptop with a single core, 1.8GHz, 32-bit AMD Sempron, 512MB of DDR, and a 75GB, 4200RPM IDE hard drive. If it can...

This is the one thing I don't like about Linux... the rampant paranoia. It's embarrassing. What's worse, the original poster was attempting to explain how this could be a fantastic development for...

I tried my first serious switch from Windows to Linux with Sabayon, and I ran into two updates in six months that left me unable to start the desktop (and lots of instability even when I could). I...

Shouldn't Linus Torvalds have run simple benchmarks like this, noticed the regressions, and done something about them before release? Or if not Linus, then.... somebody? I would still think that...