Richard M. Stallman raised an awareness recently regarding Ubuntu being rigged with a spyware. It feels like the free system is slowly transitioning to  surveillance practices.I am no that surprised by this news that much   because after-all, the OS is FREEE!

I was reading through this article and i think it would be a great help for those people with who are in need of space on their hard Drive.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/linux-find-and-recover-wasted-disk-space/

Most Linux Os are free.

Open source software

Market share of Linux os is growing

Good for embedded devices

Ubuntu being the popular one, Linus operating systems are even getting more popular. Next to Ubuntu is Debian. I have  never herd of this OS but i am will to try it and compare it with Ubuntu.I would have guessed Fedora would have taken the second place. I already have Fedora running on my desktop and its fantastic.i believe Ubuntu and Fedora are the top OS systems but here is the list in order.Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Red hat, Arch linux and suse.

With storage cost and  power requirement dropping, can the future of cellphones be in the decline and and moving most  toward the cloud/thin clients?

I have been trying to build an ubuntu server for a while now and i think this should be a gerat link.

I had a little problem installing Qt on my ubuntu system at the start of this semester.This should be a great link to install Qt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdM-B88UmTg

So, i have been looking for a mini computer that will coast less than $100. I stumbled on an article where instead of running android ont the android mini pc, it is now possible to run Ubuntu. This opens a lot of doors for people in the developing counters. According to the media, the mimi pc runs reasonably well but it could also get a little slow sometimes.This is definitely  a great news.

The new Ubuntu 12.10 has a lot of updates. Web applications can be lunched with a single click and it can be pined to the launcher, which makes it even simpler.With ubuntu 12.10 search results can also be previewed in the dash to see more options with out opening new windows.I think they have done a lot of improvements from the previous version and i think its time to update…anyone?

The group discussion was helpful but at the same time i didn’t really get a good grasp on the other commands my group members presented. It was a good start but i think i have to do more research on the commands and learn more about it.