2010 Haiti Earthquake

12 January 2010 Haiti was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7. The whole country was paralysed and the estimated death toll is around 230000. I could not stay helpless and I donated $50 to the Red Cross. My prayers go to all people affected.

Who is doing Linux Kernel Development

18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren't working for a company

7.6% is created by programmers who don't give a company affiliation

74.2% is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux by these companies

1. Red Hat: 12.3%
2. IBM: 7.6%
3. Novell: 7.6%
4. Intel: 5.3%
5. Independent consultant: 2.5%
6. Oracle: 2.4%
7. Linux Foundation: 1.6%
8. SGI 1.6%
9. Parallels 1.3%
10. Renesas Technology: 1.3%
11. Academia: 1.2%
12. Fujitsu: 1.1%
13. MontaVista: 1.1%
14. MIPS Technologies: 1.1%
15. Analog Devices: 1.0%
16. HP: 1.0%

Concentrating all my attention to this blog now

Here I have full control over my contents. So as from now i will stop losing my precious time on facebook and the likes and concentrate all my effort in making this blog worthwhile.

Desktop PC market share

According to March 2009 statistics from Hitslink,

Windows XP accounts for about 63 percent of all Internet-connected computers
Windows Vista makes up about 24 percent
Linux, mac & others accounts for the rest 13 percent