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

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Moving Beyond Kubuntu Over the years I’ve used many Linux distributions… far too many to list here without boring everyone. Needless to say, I cut my teeth on Linux during it’s early 1.2.x kernel days and I haven’t been wanting for choices over these many years. I started using Kubuntu about two years ago when [...]

KDE 4.2.2 Release Announcement "April 2nd, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cano", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop."

  100 Reasons Linux Beats Windows 1. You don’t have to “activate” Linux by phone or Internet. Reference: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20861/1141/

  Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache – What’s the Angle? About the Author Bruce Perens is the creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source and the criterion for Open Source software licensing. With Eric Raymond, he founded the Open Source Initiative, a successful effort to market the idea of Free Software [...]