What’s Popular In The Linux World This Year

Here’s a look at some of the most popular Linux news stories from this year to date.

Now being in Orlando for the UDS-P summit, but with the event not officially getting underway until Monday (beginning with Mark’s keynote where something will be announced), there’s time to catch up on a few things (especially as the beer is crap and the weather is less than ideal for VFR flight at the moment). In deciding what to write about next, I was looking at the most popular Phoronix stories from this calendar year.

For those interested in what the most popular Phoronix news stories were in the past ten months, they are listed below in order of popularity. Along with each popular Linux news item is a small redux.

Say Hello To Linux 3.0; Linus Just Tagged 3.0-rc1 – The Linux 3.0 kernel was released in July and is found in Ubuntu 11.10 among other Linux distributions.

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