links for 2007-07-20

• Compiler - Wired Blogs
  Wow - nice. MSFT wants to place adware on your computer *and* patent the process so that nobody else can??
  (tags: MSFT advertising)
• Ubuntu vs. Red Hat on Compete.com, Hitwise, and Google Trends
  Ubuntu gains heavily on Red Hat
  (tags: Linux)
• Rational Security: The Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion & the Energetic Economics of Virtualization
  Bipedalism = greater energy efficiency = more resources available for developing enabling abilities = human evolution. Virtualization = greater energy efficiency too. Result is IT evolution?
  (tags: virtualization)

Comments

[John Nigro]

I'm glad to see Ubuntu has become so popular. I love Ubuntu and my next laptop purchase will be a Dell with pre-installed Ubuntu. It runs flawlessly on my Dell now and every Ubuntu release just gets easier to use and "just works". 2007 will be remembered as the year that Linux finally "arrived" on the desktop.

[Isabel Wang]

I want one too! Was just thinking yesterday that it matters less and less whether I have a Windows computer. I hardly spend any time outside of Firefox.