Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for July 2012

Braid is returning to the top of the list for paid apps, Command & Conquer keeps strong as the most downloaded free app… and some new ones make it to the charts. Check out last month’s top 10 Ubuntu app downloads!

Top 10 paid apps

1. Braid
2. Super Meat Boy! [NEW!]
3. Bastion
4. Lone Survivor [NEW!]
5. LIMBO
6. Psychonauts
7. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
8. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
9. Fluendo DVD Player
10. The Journey Down: Chapter One

Top 10 free apps

1. Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances
2. Full Circle Magazine #61 [NEW!]
3. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
4. Plex Media Server
5. CrossOver (Trial)
6. Ryzom
7. Muktware Ubuntu Manual [NEW!]
8. Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 [NEW!]
9. Create Launcher [NEW!]
10. Screencloud [NEW!]

Would you like to see your app featured in this list and on millions of user’s computers? It’s a lot easier than you think:

• If you’re just getting your feet wet, check out how to get started with your first app in Ubuntu ›
• If you’ve got an existing app you’d like deliver to the world, submit it to the Ubuntu Software Centre ›

Notes:

• The lists of top 10 app downloads includes only those applications submitted through My Apps on the Ubuntu App Developer Site. For more information about of usage of other applications in the Ubuntu archive, check out the Ubuntu Popularity Contest statistics.
• The top 10 free apps list contains gratis applications that are distributed under different types of licence, some of which might not be open source. For detailed licence information, please check each application’s description in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Apple Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion vs. Ubuntu Linux

Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" next month, here's a look at how the latest point release of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux.

The OS X 10.7.4 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 12.10 2012-06-21 benchmarking was done from a mid-2011 Mac Mini. This Apple Mac Mini from last year is based on Intel's Sandy Bridge micro-architecture with the Core i5 2415M. The Intel i5-2415M is a quad-core part with Hyper Threading (though under OS X 10.7.4 it still advertises itself as just having two logical cores) that has a base frequency of 2.3GHz and a maximum Turbo Frequency of 2.9GHz. Intel HD 3000 graphics are integrated and used by this low-end Apple device. The system has 2GB of RAM and a 500GB Hitachi hard drive.

After benchmarking the clean installation of Mac OS X 10.7.4, it was onto performing clean installs of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS followed by the 2012-06-21 snapshot of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10.

All three operating systems were running with their stock packages, compiler, OS settings, etc to test a proper "out of the box" experience.

sources : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macosx_lion_precise&num=1