John Eddie Kerr's blog

The European Parliament has not been passive about the dominance of a powerful corporation and its impact on the daily lives of so many constituents. Of note, they have forced Microsoft to include Firefox along with Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. Since March 2010 European users have had a choice of web browser to install on their computers.

On the day that Lucid Lynx was released I threw caution to the wind and upgraded my main computer. It was running Karmic Koala at the time and I thought that the upgrade should be painless, even though conventional wisdom dictates to wait a bit after a new release. But I have heard so many good things about Lucid Lynx, and a fresh install of the beta version on an old computer I had at work was very impressive.

[Update November 27, 2008. -- Linux Magazine has stopped producing a print version as well: http://www.linux-mag.com/magazine.]

The last print edition of PC Magazine will be the January 2009 edition : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335009,00.asp . I am not surprised as we have seen the magazine get thiner over the years. I wonder if this is a taste of what is to come for other publications? It is more than just economic factors. Sure prices of magazines could be relative in price to what they were twenty years ago. But at $7.00 plus for almost any magazine today, that is hovering around the $100.00 mark per publication per year. That can be a day's pay for many of us.

Then there is the environmental issue.

(The answer is yes, see below)

Wow, we crashed the servers at OpenOffice. Well that may not be a good thing, but it shows just how popular the alternative to that other office suite is. I hope that someone at OpenOffice.org can find a way to count how many downloads of the Linux versions are made. That would give us a very good estimate as to the number of Linux users there are. I did my part, I have the deb.tar.gz on my desktop now.