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I don't "do" reviews. I have the objectivity of a New dad and the rare ability to avoid any measure of controlled enthusiasm...so asking helios to give distro reviews is like asking The Dixie Chicks to avoid Dairy Queen. It won't happen with any sense of dignity or self image.

I am betting Andrew is cursing the millisecond in time that found his mouse finger clicking the "send" button at the bottom of that processing field. Up until that moment, we could only ASSUME he was a dunce. Now we have recorded proof.

Scot Finnie, Microsoft Windows advocate and known best for his award-winning Scot's Newsletter, smacked Vista around the room a bit. When he was done there, he decided Microsoft itself needed a bit of dusting-up as well.

"...Linux is free. Got that? Free, free, free. I'm talking about the freedom of monetary costs. The last thing linux users need is some crusader banging on their ears..."

Well, it is starting to get good and you and I have front row seats to this rockem-sockem display, except when the bell rings, we are in for a treat. The spectators are going to fold themselves between the ropes, enter the ring and start slogging away themselves.

How many times have you encountered a Linux-related problem and turned to Google, Clusty, Yahoo or any other search engine for the answer? It happens more times than it should. The results snippet shows you a question hauntingly familiar to yours being asked and a link to an answer resides right below. Your heart beats wildly as you anticipate applying the deathstroke to this persistent problem...

A good, level-headed assessment of a Linux Opinion piece and the Journalist who penned it.

Within the next two weeks, Lobby4Linux will be transformed into a website more conducive to its new mission. L4L will focus on community efforts to advertise Linux in the mainstream and on the internet. One exciting project will be to challenge individual distibution members to produce competing audio and video "commercials" and short films.

LXer Feature: 24-Nov-2006 No one knows better than this community what Linux Distro is best. The problem is, there may be as many different answers as there are different distros. As a means to assemble a database, we've come to the Linux Community to pose this simple question.

A recent comment from a reader at the blog of helios gave some advice when it came to DRM and the Linux Community. Chill out. Well, for everyone that is dispensing Chill Pills on this issue, allow me to offer something to wash it down with. A bit bitter is it?

This "Covenant" is designed for nothing but to instill fear and doubt into millions of enterprise Linux Users...the fear that if they do not use Suse, the Linux tainted by Microsoft, then they just may be open to lawsuits for IP violations. This barely if at all, falls short of rape.

As well, anyone who decries the lack of "Linux Documentation" on the Internet should come speak to me. You really should. I, a loud-mouthed advocate for FOSS, with NO formal technical training and computer networking skills; installed, implemented and made operational a 9 city/455 desktop computer business network. Granted, it was a fish-shoot, but I did it and with only the information I gleaned from the internet.

No, this has nothing to do with Linux...BUT do we know anyone who NEEDS to be warned of this? MS has passed the Audacity Zone lone ago. It is now a straight punch in the face to Microsoft customers.

This company had been the focus of a BSA audit four months ago. It seemed that the fellow who had been taking care of his system had used a pirated copy of Windows Server 2005 and Windows XP Professional on most of the desktop units.

One would think, or at least hope, that those on Capitol Hill would be a handbrake on this sort of activity/mentality. When a disturbingly large number of Senators hold the belief that "Microsoft knows the business, why go with an unknown entity?", it sets the stage for a true-by-definition monopoly to take its first breath of life.

LXer Feature - 8 June-06

It would be terrible if those millions of disgruntled shoppers were to purchase their cd's or movies and, on their way back to their cars, discover that the cd or dvd had DRM on it. Anyone who realized what DRM is, would immediately return the merchandise. Doing so on the weekend prior to the fourth would be disasterous if enough people did it.

'm speaking of course of the deadly payload Microsoft will deliver under the name of their new operating system, Vista. In a nutshell, Vista will complete the DRM/Trusted Computing circuit. Hardware makers have already buckled to the Microsoft directive and manufactured their components to do their bidding.

Trying to litigate Linux is like attempting to juggle warm jello. Just as soon as you think you have a feel for it, it changes form and you have to devise a new plan of action....and then you have to hire someone to mop up the Jello. There is no “International Linux Corporate Headquarters”, nor is there a Board of Directors or any number of steely-eyed shareholders to contend with. Fighting Linux must be like trying to battle Ghost Warriors. I am here to offer you a solution and a tangible target...a solid plan that you can actually organize, project and execute.

For those who believe this way…for those who think that our differences can be settled at the Alter of Port 25 and those sincere friends with only our best interests at heart… Misconceive this.

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[I'm betting on the wife with an 8-pound hammer! - dcparris]