Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ tag
GNUnify 07 — an amazing event
GNUnify 07 at Symbiosis was a great event.
Sriram and me spoke on eclipse plug-in development on behalf of The Pune Eclipse Developers’ Group
The talk by A. Sundararajan from Sun on opensourcing the Java implementation (OpenJDK) from Sun was very interesting.
Moinak Ghosh from Sun gave a demo on some of the advanced features of OpenSolaris.
Also got an opportunity to meet Narayan Raman and Vivek Prahlad who’d developed Sahi and frankenstein.
Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu
An interesting google trend here.
A search for redhat, suse, ubuntu on google trends revealed the following:
redhat 
suse 
ubuntu 
| Top regions (normalized) | ||||||
| 1. | India |
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| 2. | Indonesia |
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| 3. | Hong Kong |
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| 4. | Malaysia |
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| 5. | Singapore |
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| 6. | South Korea |
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| 7. | Japan |
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| 8. | Philippines |
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| 9. | Taiwan |
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| 10. | Thailand |
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An interesting observation here is that most of the hits for popular distros comes from developing countries, where the piracy level is very high.
Ubuntu gets installed on billboards
This is an interesting piece of news: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6074124162.html