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Here's a great Slashdot discussion started by a LAMP developer whose boss wants to move to C#/.NET. The marrow of the convo revolves around how to sell OSS to management and/or folks that don't understand how it works: Slashdot | Advocating Linux / OSS to Management.

I know Ubuntu can't quite hold a candle to Windows or Macintosh for the common user, but still it's a pretty momentous day: Dell selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux.

Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so.  It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing.  Things that come to mind:

- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens

Some links:

I like using iTerm on the Mac (http://iterm.sourceforge.net) for SSH because it offers a number of improvements over the builtin terminal app. But one hassle is that the delete key (it's Delete on MacBooks, Backspace on Apple keyboards), when SSH'd into a Linux box, doesn't delete the character to the left but instead the character to the right. Here's how to change that:

Didn't Bill Gates steal the OS from Apple??? Now it seems it's NOT okay to take what isn't yours.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189833/microsoft-claims-patents-linux

I currently am testing out Ryan's MacBook vs.

I have a new 4GB USB flash drive (with KEWL BLNKIGN LITE!!!1!), and I wasn't sure what to do with all that space.

One thing that keeps me yelling at my phone instead of feeling good about it is the closed nature of the beast.  In just about any other device that you can own, you have the ability to get in th

when Apple made the move to rewrite their OS years back, surely they took many things into consideration.

such as the propogation of Linux! wahooOOO!!!!

As part of my fooling around with Linux, I recently upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu, the beta of 7.04 Feisty, with mixed experiences.  I had problems even getting things to dist-upgrade, etc, which