lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014
More News about Pisi Linux!
Even though it has a small developing team, Pisi Linux continues to advance. The site Pisi Linux World published more news about the project.
The Release Candidate 2 of Pisi Linux 1.0 KDE will continue being 64 bit-only, but it does have several changes if compared to what the last news said:
Before
- Kernel 3.12.5 or 3.12.8
- KDE 4.11.5
- Firefox 26
- LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
Now
- Kernel: 3.12.8
- KDE: 4.12.2
- Firefox: 27.01
- Libreoffice:4.1.5.32
- QT:4.8.5
lunes, 17 de febrero de 2014
SliTaz Needs Your Help!
SliTaz, a little distro (so little it fits 40 Mb)! is currently carrying out a fundraising campaign.
Why not donating a buck or two to keep the spider penguin on its Web? :)
What? You don't feel like giving money away? Not even for an OS as SliTaz??
Well, then why don't you take a look at the SliTaZ shop and buy something?
Spiders are always fashionable, just ask Spider-man (or Venom)! :P
By the way, SliTaz has just released its cooking iso (SliTaz 5). Gotta test it ASAP!
Why not donating a buck or two to keep the spider penguin on its Web? :)
What? You don't feel like giving money away? Not even for an OS as SliTaz??
Well, then why don't you take a look at the SliTaZ shop and buy something?
Spiders are always fashionable, just ask Spider-man (or Venom)! :P
By the way, SliTaz has just released its cooking iso (SliTaz 5). Gotta test it ASAP!
miércoles, 5 de febrero de 2014
OS Market Share...What's Going on?
Just for fun, I visited Netmarketshare.com to see how OS "adoption" has changed in January when compared to December's figures. Well, the results were quite interesting:
Linux had 1.73% in December. Last month it grabbed 1.6%. That means a loss of 0.13%. Oh, well!
Mac OS X 10.9 increased its share 0.41%. It went from 2.79% to 3.2%.
The generally hated Vista refuses to die: it went down from 3.61% to 3.3% (-0.31).
Even if it was only 0.04%, Windows 7 actually fell for the first time! It went down from 47.52% in December to 47.49% in January. Now, that is weird! Are Windows users finally shifting to Windows 8?
That is a hasty conclusion, I'd say. Windows 8 went down from 6.89% to 6.63% (-0.26%). Of course, Windows 8.1 seems to be grabbing 8's share: it went up from 3.6% to 3.95% (+0.35%). What's up with this slow adoption? Yes, I know...let's sing together the perennial mantra: "it's too early....to tell...it's too early...to tell".
Still, I hear people celebrate such sluggish progress saying "8.1 passed Vista!! Yay!". Are these people delusional?
Let me put it easy to understand (although not easy to digest for some): Vista, in its good times, reached 19.01%! Yes, that's without the gigantic marketing campaign, the UEFI lock in, the Surface, and the "mysterious" disappearance of systems running Windows 7 from most store shelves...all that aimed at "helping" Windows 8 adoption.
Given their current adoption rates, will 8 or 8.1 ever reach that number? That means 8.1 would need a steady growth of 1.3% each month for a year to overcome that number. Will it be able to? (Remember, Windows 9 is due for 2015).
Now, the biggest surprise was Windows XP. It went up against all odds: it grabbed 29.23% from a previous 28.98% in December (+0.25%)
What does that mean? Late adopters???
Go figure! (no pun intended :P)
Linux had 1.73% in December. Last month it grabbed 1.6%. That means a loss of 0.13%. Oh, well!
Mac OS X 10.9 increased its share 0.41%. It went from 2.79% to 3.2%.
The generally hated Vista refuses to die: it went down from 3.61% to 3.3% (-0.31).
Even if it was only 0.04%, Windows 7 actually fell for the first time! It went down from 47.52% in December to 47.49% in January. Now, that is weird! Are Windows users finally shifting to Windows 8?
That is a hasty conclusion, I'd say. Windows 8 went down from 6.89% to 6.63% (-0.26%). Of course, Windows 8.1 seems to be grabbing 8's share: it went up from 3.6% to 3.95% (+0.35%). What's up with this slow adoption? Yes, I know...let's sing together the perennial mantra: "it's too early....to tell...it's too early...to tell".
Still, I hear people celebrate such sluggish progress saying "8.1 passed Vista!! Yay!". Are these people delusional?
Let me put it easy to understand (although not easy to digest for some): Vista, in its good times, reached 19.01%! Yes, that's without the gigantic marketing campaign, the UEFI lock in, the Surface, and the "mysterious" disappearance of systems running Windows 7 from most store shelves...all that aimed at "helping" Windows 8 adoption.
Given their current adoption rates, will 8 or 8.1 ever reach that number? That means 8.1 would need a steady growth of 1.3% each month for a year to overcome that number. Will it be able to? (Remember, Windows 9 is due for 2015).
Now, the biggest surprise was Windows XP. It went up against all odds: it grabbed 29.23% from a previous 28.98% in December (+0.25%)
What does that mean? Late adopters???
Go figure! (no pun intended :P)
domingo, 2 de febrero de 2014
Pisi Linux Development...Slow but Steady!
Pisi Linux is a little distro that, even if its team is small and has had to say good-bye to several valuable team members (Yoyo Fernández and Richard de Bruin among them), it keeps its slow, but steady walk toward its first final release.According to an announcement made last month on Pisi Linux World, we can expect the second release candidate soon. This is the update more concretely:
The RC2 will be soon available, and
after that the release of Pisi Linux 1.0 :) What can you expect in
RC2:
- Kernel 3.12.5 or 3.12.8
- KDE 4.11.5
- Firefox 26
-
LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
- Qt 4.8.5
- And a lot more in the repo
This is exciting! I really want to use the final release of Pisi (although my Beta keeps working happily on my laptop.)
Long time no news, so time for a little update. The RC2 will be soon avaliable, and after that the release of Pisi Linux 1.0 :)
What can you expect in RC2:
- Kernel 3.12.5 or 3.12.8
- KDE 4.11.5
- Firefox 26
- LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
- Qt 4.8.5
- And a lot more in the repo - See more at: http://www.pisilinuxworld.org/node/33#sthash.snTNMxDK.dpuf
A news update about the Pisi Linux project (january 2014)
Long time no news, so time for a little update. The RC2 will be soon avaliable, and after that the release of Pisi Linux 1.0 :)
What can you expect in RC2:
- Kernel 3.12.5 or 3.12.8
- KDE 4.11.5
- Firefox 26
- LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
- Qt 4.8.5
- And a lot more in the repo
- See more at: http://www.pisilinuxworld.org/node/33#sthash.snTNMxDK.dpuf
Long time no news, so time for a little update. The RC2 will be soon avaliable, and after that the release of Pisi Linux 1.0 :)
What can you expect in RC2:
- Kernel 3.12.5 or 3.12.8
- KDE 4.11.5
- Firefox 26
- LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
- Qt 4.8.5
- And a lot more in the repo
- See more at: http://www.pisilinuxworld.org/node/33#sthash.snTNMxDK.dpuf
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