One of the great things about Linux on the desktop is the wide variety of options available.  Linux, as many would say, “is all about choice”.KDE or GNOME?  RPM or Dpkg Deb?  Red Hat or Debian?  The various options available to Linux Desktop distros distributions are almost… limitless.But which options, exactly, are people using?  And how has [...]

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Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead. Link

“Our own Geek Queen Blair Mathis is back with 50 ways to increase your Linux knowledge and help you along the way to true geekdom.” via 50 ways to impress your geeky linux friends – LaptopLogic.com.

“Microsoft’s Empty Promise Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it’s safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it’s nowhere near enough to make C# safe.” via Microsoft’s Empty Promise [...]

Article at Geek.com “Have you ever wondered why some updates or installs require a reboot, and others don’t? The main reason relates to kernel-level core services running in memory which either have been altered by the update to include new data that can’t be “squeezed in” to its existing footprint, or are currently attached to [...]

Google Android Tutorial “Google has recently released the Android platform for developing mobile applications. The language used for developing Android programs is Java, but it is not Java Micro Edition. No wireless application developer can ignore Android. Google is the best known brand name, among the users of the web and Android comes from Google. [...]

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10 things Linux does better than Windows | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com. “If you tallied up the strengths and weaknesses of Linux and Windows, which OS would come out ahead? According to Jack Wallen, superiority in security, flexibility, interoperability, community, and command-line power (among other things) put Linux well ahead. See if you agree with [...]