GNU/Linux races for Best Desktop
22.01.2009 | Categories: Ubuntu
Desktop Parade
La Repubblica, one of the two major Italian newspapers, has opened a competition for the most beautiful, original personal desktop.
I haven't checked all the pictures (there are already more than 1000) but from those few hundreds I sampled I could recognise twelve linux desktops: one Debian, five GNOME (one possibly UBUNTU and one definetively so, another one FEDORA), and six KDE, two of which definetively KUBUNTU while one was FEDORA.
On the other side I was amazed by the relatively high number of Macs and the quite small number of people that seem to be actually using Vista.
The sample is definetively not statistically correct but this would show a share of about 5% for GNU/Linux vs. 15% for Macs and the rest is mainly XP ...
There is no prize, they will just show what they consider the best pictures during an exposition (FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma) in Rome.
I haven't found any reference to any limitations (just the picture that has to be 800x600 pixels), so I suppose that everybody is free to partecipate (I have seen pictures from people not residing in Italy, while admittedly they could speak Italian). Pictures can be sent to this email address: fotografie@repubblica.it including your name, surname and place of residence.