(LinuxWorld) — Evans Data Corporation hired me to help out with a
research report focused on Linux developers. They surveyed a broad range of
developers, including VARs, consultants, developers working for ISVs and
IT-developers for companies of every imaginable size. It turns out there are
so many jewels in the survey results that it's difficult to decide which ones
to put on display here at LinuxWorld.
After much consideration, I chose a nearly flawless diamond. It replaces the
cubic zirconia otherwise known as the axiom that Linux is taking more market
share from Unix than from Windows. I had long suspected this was a fallacy,
and Evans' data confirms my suspicions.
Of the developers surveyed, more than 50 percent who now develop primarily
for Linux used to dev... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- If you have an Nvidia GeForce card and you're using it to
play games under Linux, then you must be using the Nvidia Linux drivers for
your card. (See resources for links to previous columns covering these
drivers.) Playing games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 is nothing like
living dangerously, unless you're playing them at work and your boss happens
to drop by. If yo... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- If you follow the latest security bulletins, you noticed
someone discovered a huge security hole in the PHP-based weblog software
PHP-Nuke. I mention this because I've been learning PHP the hard way by
modifying the PHP-Nuke source code, since my two non-profit sites
VarLinux.org and Petreley.org are based on PHP-Nuke. I used the 4.4.1a
version of the source code, but it ... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- Before I get started on this week's topic, I want to request
my readers to calm down about last week's column. I know the headline implied
that the column itself was a newbie's guide to choosing a Linux distribution,
but it was only meant to set the stage for such a guide by laying out my
current opinion of the past versions of various distributions. That gives you
a base... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — When I ran into Slava Pestov, the core developer of
Jedit, on IRC, I asked him what he thought of some of the increasingly
popular Java-based Integrated Development Environments such as Eclipse and
NetBeans. To paraphrase his opinion, IDEs are just bloated editors loaded
down with a bunch of wizards. I might agree — with the possible
exception of Eclipse, which... (more)
Nicholas Petreley is a computer consultant and author in Asheville, NC.
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