I've long lamented the fact that Linux lacks any real marketing strategy. Of course, when a product is free of cost, there is no ROI so what's the point? Canonical beat the odds with Ubuntu. The fan-base became so large, so fast that Universal Awareness of Ubuntu can be credited to a simple grass-roots effort that expanded across the globe. It wasn't television or radio advertising. It wasn't billboards. It was good old fashioned proselytizing. Gimmee that old-time religion any day.

Octave is an ideal tool to perform many different types of data analysis. The data can be generated by other programs or be collected from a database and then loaded into Octave's workspace. The data analysis tools in Octave are based on a truly impressive arsenal of different functions. In this article by Jesper Schmidt Hansen, author of GNU Octave Beginner's Guide, we will only discuss a few of them here, namely, how to perform the simplest statistical analysis and function fitting. In brief terms, upon reading this article, you will learn: More about the ASCII file formats that can be loaded into Octave's workspace. How you can use Octave to perform simple descriptive statistics. About fitting different functions to data.

Znarl writes with a report from Joe Brockmeier, who writes that: "KDE users have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise from Facebook: Not only is the site blocking KDE apps like Gwenview from uploading, the social media giant has also taken down photos uploaded with the KDE plugins. Yet another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook for photo storage."

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Converseen is a batch image converter and thumbnail creator. It supports more than 100 image formats, including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. It features a very simple user interface without strange options. Changes: This release fixed the overwriting dialog when the renaming option is enabled. Release Tags: Stable, [...]