Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Web on Jan 3rd, 2009
It’s great to see Firefox’s market share is up again this month (according to Net Applications) – over 20% for the first time. The results reveal something interesting – that Firefox is increasingly the browser of choice (ie. large residential user base) whereas IE is still the corporate standard. Just as a reference point for [...]
Posted in open source, Web on Jun 3rd, 2008
Firefox has been my browser of choice since at least 1.5 (2004?) and it’s provided consistency across the various OS’s I’ve used during that time – Ubuntu, Windows 95, Mac OS/x and Fedora. There are a number of reports that Firefox is seriously eating into Microsoft’s dominant market share – start here. Mozilla are planning [...]
Posted in open source, Red Hat, Technology, Uncategorized on May 18th, 2008
Last week I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop and so far I like what I see – the desktop and visual effects are pretty nice without being to much of a distraction. Security is pretty solid with encrypted disk and SE Linux if you need it. All in all – everything seems to hang [...]