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Google YouTube uses Adobe Flash for streaming videos online. This alone could be responsible for the popularity of this format for online video watching.

The popularity of Ubuntu Linux has attracted millions of new Linux users. Helping inexperienced computer users, whether as part of your job or just on a friendly basis, can be demanding and frustrating.

But it is an essential part of building community, and just being a decent person. Michael Hall has some helpful pointers...

And with its popularity reaching stratospheric proportions, we thought that now was the perfect time to pool together our favourite tips into one place.

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OStatic: "Although there are signs that the very early popularity of this browser has calmed down somewhat, it's still generating a lot of buzz...here are seven tips for customizing and getting the most out of it."

Microsoft is well aware of Linux's growing popularity, though it is loath to comment publicly. Repeated press inquiries resulted in nothing more than a bland statement from a spokesman for Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's primary public relations company.

October 25, 2008 - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago Share Comments In recent years Linux has emerged as a powerful and innovative UNIX work-alike.

Its popularity is surpassing that of its UNIX predecessors.

Computing Tech: "In recent years Linux has emerged as a powerful and innovative UNIX work-alike. Its popularity is surpassing that of its UNIX predecessors.

Although it mimics UNIX in many ways, the Linux operating system departs from UNIX in several significant ways"

There is a general dissent growing at the popularity that Ubuntu enjoys among the Linux users.

The growing popularity of small form-factor low-cost mobile computing devices has created a huge opportunity for Linux to gain mainstream traction with regular consumers, but hardware makers that are adopting the open source platform are encountering some challenges.