Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

At http://www.dudalibre.com they are running a campaign to make every owner of computers running Linux register. The aim is to prove that the general assumption, that only 1 % of all computers run Linux is wrong. Everyone is needed if this effort is going to succeed.

http://www.dudalibre.com/en/gnulinuxcounter

The page can also be displayed in Spanish and French

I voted for my distro Fedora, hope you do the same for your linux distribution and prove that Linux does run on high number of desktop.

Fedora Linux – Display information about users currently logged on – whowatch

Here is description of program/utility to display the currently logged in user in a Linux box (tried on Fedora 13 Goddard):

Whowatch is an interactive console utility that displays informations about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login, tty, host, user’s process) you can see type of login (ie. ssh, telnet). You can also see selected user’s processes tree or all system processes tree.  In the process tree mode there is ability to send INT or KILL signal to selected process.

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Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux

?Gmail Videochat Comes to Linux
”The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail
Videochat! The <a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">GMail team recently announced the availability of voice
and <a class="zem_slink" title="Videoconferencing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing">video chat on Linux. This feature is currently supported on <a class="zem_slink" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu
and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Debian" rel="homepage" href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian-based <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. <a class="zem_slink" title="RPM Package Manager" rel="homepage" href="http://rpm.org/">RPM Support for <a class="zem_slink" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Linux
and other <a class="zem_slink" title="Red Hat" rel="homepage" href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat based distributions (like <a class="zem_slink" title="CentOS" rel="homepage" href="http://www.centos.org/">CentOS) is going to be added
soon.&#8221; Some screenshots of GMail Video Chat on Linux in action

How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

• display Linux skills
• install popular software
• change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
• display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
• enable some third party repositories#
• clean apt/yum cache#
• backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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Configurable Linux Distro You Might Want To Try – Fedora

Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com.

Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004e02d" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to <a href="http://www.novell.com/linux/">Novell and <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE.

How To Install Ailurus On Fedora

For those who have not yet heard about ailurus:

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What is Ailurus?

Ailurus is cross-Linux-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">distribution <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What does Ailurus hope to do?

Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux.

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How to Install KDE in Windows]

For over a decade, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000021de6" title="KDE" rel="homepage" href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE has supplied Linux and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003e17c" title="Unix" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix">Unix users with a graphical <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000007eda2" title="Desktop environment" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment">desktop environment and a suite of useful <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000254091" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">applications. It has become one of the most popular desktop environments and is the default on many <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000024e02" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distributions. With the coming of KDE 4, developers promised native KDE applications running on <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000025fe8" title="Windows" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS">Windows. While the current release is still not ready for production, as of KDE 4.3.3, it is coming closer and worth trying. What follows is a brief guide to getting KDE running on Windows.