The Linux Pimp

Linux has no chance of catching Windows on the desktop, but that may not stop it from becoming more ubiquitous than Windows. One day, you'll most likely be running Linux, and there's a good chance you won't even know it. In that way, you'll be like millions of other people.

Microsoft has done a spectacular job of locking down the desktop for Windows. That battle is over; Linux lost

Looking to mix things up a little, I thought it’d be fun to take a more entertaining look at what we can do with our Linux boxes. I’m listing ten noteworthy Linux applications that I find very fun to use.

After all, Linux is more than a mere efficient platform. It can also provide a great deal of entertainment as well.

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I know it sounds crazy. Fedora is more a test-bed for the enterprise-grade RHEL. Fedora is cutting edge software that evokes images of users fixing more issues than enjoying user-friendly software. Fedora is for those who already know; Ubuntu is for those that do not. Right? Wrong. Those assumptions are wrong on numerous accounts…especially since the release of Fedora 13.

Microsoft has announced that they have come to a “patent agreement” with mobile phone maker HTC for their use of the open-source Android (Linux) OS. What’s more, Microsoft, under the agreement, will collect a royalty on each HTC Android device sold — a deal not even Google gets. I’ll be honest, the news a few months back that Amazon reached a similar &l

THE BRILLIANTLY NAMED Steam, a popular game framework and online service created by the gaming company Valve, appears to be headed to Linux.

Information gathered by Phoronix, most importantly proof of Steam's Linux client existence discovered via Steam's Mac OS X launcher, indicates that this will happen in the not too distant future.