Mint the new Ubuntu?

Linux Mint dethrones Ubuntu | Ubuntu Manual

Will Linux Mint outdo the popularity of Ubuntu? and it seems we were right. Linux Mint is finally starting to beat Ubuntu in popularity.

Sometimes called "The Ubuntu done right" by many people, Linux mint is starting to look more popular, atleast by the statisitcs showed by Distrowatch - the first place you would look for if you want to look for a Linux Distro and of course the popularity of a Linux Distro.

Ubuntu helping HP with the cloud

HP picks Ubuntu as cloud operating system | IT PRO

HP has announced it will run its upcoming public cloud offerings on the Ubuntu operating system (OS).

The open source OS from Canonical will be the “lead host and guest operating system” for HP’s recently announced public cloud services – HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage – which are still being trialled as private betas.

New hassles coming to dual booting with Windows 8

Windows 8 secure boot could complicate Linux installs

PC users who run Windows and Linux on the same machine will want to do some research before purchasing a Windows 8 computer. That's because systems with a "Designed for Windows 8" logo must ship with UEFI secure booting enabled—a move that prevents booting operating systems that aren’t signed by a trusted Certificate Authority.

This could pose a problem for Linux users, though in practice most can just change UEFI settings to disable secure boot before installing the open-source OS. But users will have to depend on hardware vendors to make this option possible in the first place.

Ubuntu GDM Themes for making logging on pretty

25+ Ubuntu GDM Themes - Ubuntuka

You can find literally hundreds GDM/Logon themes around the web if you type “gdm themes ubuntu” in Google. At the same time I’ve organized links to the most interesting Ubuntu GDM themes in this multi-page post so you are welcome to navigate between its pages using links above. If you wish to share something here — just contact me via e-mail and your theme will appear here shortly.

Ubuntu sliding in popularity

Ubuntu sliding in popularity - Has it had one PR disaster too many? | TechEye

Figures from Distro-watch show that the popular front of Linux, Ubuntu, is sliding in popularity.

While the distro is still tops, it is starting to look like others are eating into its user base faster than Homer Simpson at an all you can eat penguin steak buffet.

It is jolly easy to pin most of Ubuntu's woes on one thing - Unity. Unity was Mark Shuttleworth's attempt to make a more user friendly GUI for Ubuntu which has always looked a little too much like a Windows XP clone.

Unfortunately, he miffed a lot of people who want Ubuntu because it looked like a Windows XP clone and they didn't want to learn a new skill set. The other problem with Unity was that it took out all the things that allowed Linux fanboys to tinker.