Unfortunately, doubling a small number is still a small number. Still, it is nice to see us nearing a 1% share of the desktop market.I suspect that we are in for more progress as more applications move to the web and become cross-platform. MS is losing this battle more quickly than they realize, and they don't even realize it yet.

KDE Raptor is a slick new application launcher for the Linux desktop. Judging by these initial screenshots, they really have the look right! I look forward to seeing some KDE 4 desktops with this functionality.