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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.

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“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 – Free Software Foundation.

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 multiple separate processes which cannot be accounted for without a reboot. Ksplice has figured out a way around that issue in a majority of the cases.A recent examination of Linux kernel updates suggests 88% of those which today fall under the “must reboot” category due to the types of programs they affect, could be converted into rebootless forms using Ksplice.”

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. I am presenting this hands-on tutorial, as a sequel to my j2me series. Adequate knowledge of core-java ,especially Event-handling, Swing and inner-classes is assumed. Though Android does not make use of Swing, it uses similar ideas.”

Live Android Demo

I’ve downloaded the iso and loaded it up in a virtualbox, here are some screenshots of it if you are interested

Live Android Demo Screenshots

Live Android Demo - Main Screen

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 his assessment.”

“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 I wanted to see what the hype was all about and not only was it far easier to get going on my laptop of the time than the Debian installation I had been using, it was easy enough to use that I could recommend for new users.

So I stuck with it and I learned its myriad of quirks and all those little deviations that inevitably occur between releases as a distribution project matures. I didn’t just stick with the KDE variant either, I downloaded and used the gnome desktop. xfce, as well as the studio version and often ran the bleeding edge of everything. However, through all of it, KDE has pretty much remained my default desktop.

It seems that now… for me at least… it’s time to move on.”

More at: Moving Beyond Kubuntu

My Comment:
This is something everyone on the KDE team and everyone who makes KDE based distros needs to hear.
I’ve been struggling through KDE4 from 4.0 to 4.2.2, but when my distro started incorporating Koffice 2 and I read an article claiming 2 years before it becomes reliable again, that was just it. No more KDE, I’ve moved to Gnome and OpenOffice.