This post is a tribute to Linux Hater who sadly has retired. He was insightful and right about many things, although sometimes a bit too whiny.
Linux currently holds about 1% market share on the desktop. It has gained 0.5% in 2 years, whilst Mac OS X has gained 3%, and MS Windows has lost 4%. [...]

Backing up my home folder this weekend, in readiness for the Ubuntu Intrepid beta I spotted some unusual path names scroll by:
~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/desktop-directories
~/.local/share/gnome-do
~/.local/share/mime
~/.local/share/Mono Paint
~/.local/share/Trash
~/.local/share/tracker
It turns out that the hidden folders $HOME/.local/, $HOME/.config, and $HOME/.cache are default values, specified by the Freedesktop.org Basedir specification. To override these values one may set some environment varibles:

$XDG_DATA_HOME for user [...]

My first ever LugRadio Live was LRL 2006, which was the perfect opportunity to pickup CDs of the then newly released Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
My last ever LugRadio Live is LRL 2008, which will be the perfect opportunity to pickup CDs of the now newly released Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS.
See you there, July 19th – 20th.

By default the proprietary driver for Nvidia cards on Linux fires an interrupt for every frame drawn on screen, whether it needs to or not. This increases power consumption. To avoid this use version 100.14.19 or later of the driver (the nvidia-glx-new package in Ubuntu 8.04 provides 169.12) and set OnDemandVBlankInterrupts to true in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. [...]

Around 1992 my second computer was an Amiga 500+, a lovely machine. It beat the pants off any PC at the time, particularly for playing Lemmings. Many Amigas used a television for their display, as a result they could run at a super high interlaced resolution. This looked awful and induced headaches. Interlacing is a [...]

I begin with evidence that Linux on the desktop is a reality, the bottom feeders have arrived:

Note the operating system, in red. I’m guessing they just query the browser’s user agent, but it still made me do a double take.