First off, Robert X. Cringely wrote a recent column on the comparative strengths of Linux and Windows. Here's a neat quote from the article attributed to Linus Torvalds:
"Because the software is free, there is no pressure to release it before it is really ready just to achieve some sales …
Valve Software had the source code for their newest game, Half Life 2, stolen in a security breach last month. The owner says a keystroke-logger was customized specifically to hack Valve, and was installed on their computers through a hole in Microsoft Outlook. Ouch. Game companies are notoriously secretive and …
There's a command in Linux / Unix called "sudo" which temporarily gives a normal user the power of the root user. In non-geek mixed metaphors, instead of having limited access, you have a backstage pass which lets you do absolutely anything on the system. (Of course, the command needs a password …
I got interested in a project called Linux From Scratch (LFS) about a year ago, going so far as to have a copy place print out the 4.0 version of the book. Never really did anything about it, though. This weekend I started working on the 4.1 version …
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
-- Gene (spaf) Spafford (1992)
This was before the www was widely known, when Usenet was the most common use of the …