http://mrpogson.com One man. Closing, all the windows. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:59:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mrpogson.com/2010/06/25/games-in-gnulinux/ http://mrpogson.com/2010/06/25/games-in-gnulinux/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:49:47 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=2175 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } The games market is pretty small but vigorous. One supplier of games for that other OS ported a game to GNU/Linux in six weeks and published the web-stats that resulted. They claim their investment in the port was repaid and sales/downloads continue. Their estimate is that 15-21% of their gamers use GNU/Linux and the release [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2010/06/25/games-in-gnulinux/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:14:18 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=210 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } Change is in the air in 2009. 7 is being touted as a “Linux-killer” by sycophants of that other OS. This means the puppet-masters are fearful of GNU/Linux. They have been fearful since 2000 or so when IBM began to push GNU/Linux. Now their worst nightmares are coming true: netbooks give them nowhere to hide [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/22/change/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/ http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:42:20 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=181 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } The relationship between Google and M$ is very interesting. Google operates in a different universe, one so far, far away from M$ that M$ has not been able to touch it. Google got into business on the web which M$ does not control. With a huge search/ad business, they could be a competitor of M$ [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2009/01/02/google-elephant-in-the-kitchen/feed/ 2 http://mrpogson.com/2008/09/28/doom-for-that-other-os/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/09/28/doom-for-that-other-os/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:46:22 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=125 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } I just noticed this tasty tidbit from China: “Windows and Unix command market shares of 41.8 percent and 53.9 percent, respectively.” So, with a billion future users of PCs in China, that other OS is starting from 42% and GNU/Linux is starting from 2.5% with three times the growth rate… Doom for that other OS. [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/09/28/doom-for-that-other-os/feed/ 4 http://mrpogson.com/2008/07/04/gnulinux-is-going-up-the-middle/ http://mrpogson.com/2008/07/04/gnulinux-is-going-up-the-middle/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:38:11 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=116 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } There has been a surge in production and sales of low-end PCs and notebooks in the last six months. Many of the small machines were sold with GNU/Linux installed. To exclude GNU/Linux from the new markets as much as possible, M$ extended the life of XP on low-end machines. Now M$ has included machines with [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2008/07/04/gnulinux-is-going-up-the-middle/feed/ 0