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CNet: "Is Google's Chrome browser mainstream? Certainly not. But I've been curious how widespread its use is, in particular because I'm curious if I have any company in my choice to set Chrome as my default browser."

The Linux Distillery: "Linux rocks; if you have a netbook, a GPS, a portable media player or any of a number of gadgets chances are it's running Linux under the hood.

That's because Linux is reliable, it's versatile, it's robust and it has no licensing fees. So why isn't it mainstream in the desktop world?"

Datamation: "Netbooks usually come with one of two main operating systems. Unlike more expensive mainstream and ultralight notebooks, which typically offer either Windows Vista or Mac OS X as their primary operating system, netbooks tend to sport either Linux or Windows XP--mainly due to their lower CPU and power requirements."

Webware: "In the past I think it's been an overly complicated affair with too much learning involved, but these days with special hardware like Apple's multitouch track pad and some really fantastic Firefox plug-ins, gesture-based navigation is slowly becoming mainstream."

The 15-year-old Ohio girl who was arrested last week and accused of sending nude pictures of herself to classmates is the product of a culture where pornography has gone mainstream and fame can be had in an instant by simply distributing a sexually explicit video with a cell phone or on the Internet.

eWeek: ""We're making supercomputer performance available to companies that might otherwise not be able to afford it," Laing said."

IT Wire: "Like all teenagers it can be temperamental, and always capable of annoying the middle-aged mainstream. As Debian turns 15 today, iTWire says HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

Daniweb: "Last week Adobe surprised a few people--well, at least it surprised me--with the announcement that it was including Alfresco content management services as part of its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Update 1 package..."

CIO: "The statistics from a CIO.com survey make it clear: Open-source solutions are becoming more commonplace in corporate IT, if not precisely mundane.

The study also identifies where the friction is in business open-source adoption, and which application types are most popular..."

eWeek: "Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a serious challenge to Microsoft Windows on mainstream desktops and notebooks..."