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According to statistics gathered by Net Applications company, for the first time, Linux has total market share over 1% of Internet users.

The actual share is 1.02%, which is a large increase compared to 0.90% in March. Next month, we will see whether it was a temporary or permanent increase. In turn, Windows XP systematically loses its share and in April the total market share was 62.21%. In March, it was 62.85%.

The latest version of Mandriva Linux 2009.1 is now available for download from the project website.

As we wrote a couple of days ago, today the official stable version of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope was released.

The new system brings a lot of new features. The most important changes are: GNOME 2.26, support for the ext4 file system, new styles and notifications settings.

The new GNOME has a function for fonts optimization depending on the current monitor settings (e.g. current screen resolution). Kubuntu is based on the latest KDE 4.2.2.

The new version 6.1.0 of Slax Linux distribution is available. The distribution is based on Slackware and can boot from a CD.

This is probably the last version in the 6.x line. No new features are planned. The current version is equipped with the XDM so that Flux will be launched when when KDE is not installed. This situation can happen if only Slax Core and Slax Xorg are chosen in the process of the distribution adjustement.

In December we wrote about a contest for the best Linux advertising campaign. Now, The Linux Foundation has announced the results of the competition. The contest attracted nearly 100 amateur videos from around the world. The winner has been chosen by a panel of judges and the open source community.