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"If Shuttleworth thinks that Ubuntu will ever one-up Windows or the Mac on anything except 1st prize for the fugliest background color scheme, he needs to stop believing his own publicity," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "Ubuntu isn'...

Similarly, "I agree 100 percent with Linus's criticisms, but like many of the commenters, I'd go further," offered Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I think that it would be a good idea for the developers (including Linus) to take a look a...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, wasn't so sure about the Cotton Candy device in particular, which she called "seriously overpriced." "The hardware specs from the vendor's web site say it's a single-core A9 cpu and quad-core Mali gpu," Huds...

"I'm not going to panic," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "They've promised security updates until 2017, and by then we'll have been reading 'Netcraft confirms it -- Flash is dead' for years "I can't say I blame them too much," Hu...

"Bug #1 - Microsoft has a majority market share." - Ubuntu bug tracker ...

Indeed, "Canonical trashed their desktop user base in an attempt to make Ubuntu touch-friendly, and now the big news is that Ubuntu is running on a non-touch screen? Ouch!" agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "There's a real lack of an...

Barbara Hudson, however -- a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site -- took issue with the study's methodology, which she called "fatally flawed." To wit: "Respondents needed to have hired at least one Linux professional in the last year, or have plans to hire Linux...

The ability to mount ISOs "without having to download Daemon Tools is probably the biggie," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "It's something that is so obviously needed, and yet it's been missing for ages," Hudson explained. "With la...

It is "a Good Thing(TM) that Gnome is open source; projects like Cinnamon can 'route around' the damage," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. At the same time, "the existence of Cinnamon is also a symptom of the churn that is becoming...

For Barbara Hudson, "it's like deja vu all over again!" she told Linux Girl "Kubuntu is just the latest Canonical abandonware project," explained Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site....

Indeed, "is it even rational to expect vendors to survive by offering the same product as everyone else, when the moment you come up with something better anyone else can just copy all the good bits?" mused Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. ...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a similar view "Now there's a gutsy business plan: take an obsolete Zenithink C71 that sells for $120, with everything nobody wants in a tablet -- bad battery life, no Android or Apple app support, no ap...

Similarly, "it's hard to get excited about HP releasing Enyo 2, which should probably be called 'Yet Another Javascript Framework,'" agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "It certainly won't bootstrap interest in webOS -- after all, if ...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, saw it differently "After years of sexist presentations at open-source IT events, organizations such as the Apache Foundation have adopted the geekfeminism anti-harassment policy," she began. "I don't know w...

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, had even more choice words on the issue. 'They Need Software Viagra'...

Last but not least, Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, was "a bit surprised by CentOS losing to Debian," she admitted "It looks like Debian is on a roll lately, not just as a base for making popular distros, but in its own right," she added.

Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, was similarly cheered by the report "Lies, damn lies, and statistics ... who can say what the real numbers are just from web browser stats?" Hudson began. "A more likely source of numbers would be from linux...

"I think I'm beginning to suffer from 'fork fatigue,'" began Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Still, given a choice and a few spare hours, I'd definitely be willing to give it a whirl," Hudson added. "It looks interesting, and people have ...

"Hopefully it won't be about the long-promised 'We'll have Android Apps running on Ubuntu on a tablet,' because that's already been done, on a (US)$59 tablet from DataWind on a hacked linux kernel," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "Be...

There are many different ways to define "free" software, noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Some software costs money, some costs more in terms of time," Hudson explained. "Some software has more restrictions attached to it. And just...