Here is a very honest article detailing someones switch from windows to Red Hat Linux. For anyone contemplating a similiar move, it is worth a read.
“A ten-year Windows user makes the jump to Linux and finds it empowering, liberating and easy to do.”
There is a nice little article over at pclinuxonline about which distro to choice. It has produced some interesting, and some pointless, discussion as well. For those wondering which one to choice, this may be helpfull.
And now for The Registers opinion on Red Hats recent explanations.
“Red Hat is the only distro to consistently favored the ideologically-correct Gnome over the more mature KDE, and unsurprisingly KDE members have been extremely skeptical about the rationale offered by Taylor (a Gnome developer)”http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26326.html
A newly publicised flaw in Mozilla-based Web browsers allows servers to discover where visitors go after they leave the site
Netscape and other Web browsers based on the Mozilla development project contain a bug that leaks users’ Web surfing data, according to a new report. The bug reveals the URL of the page a user is viewing to the Web server of the site visited last. This allows a Web server to track where users go after they leave the site, even if the next Web address comes from a bookmark or is manually typed into the browser. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122261,00.html
Getting closer…http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90rc.php3
Bug fixes, security updates, etc. You should upgrade.http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html