An interesting first look at the ’switch to Linux’. But one thing that ought to be said is that the ‘End Program’ feature in Windows more often than not contributes to freezing. However the kill command in Linux is works 100% of the time (in my experience).

Examining “Test Driving Linux”, a guided tour book.

Review by Peter Mikovitz of the Greater Charleston .NET User Group (GC.NUG)

David Brickner offers to readers of this book a unique opportunity to have a guided tour of a working Linux desktop. With the companion CD, he offers a risk free experience on the reader’s own PC, without needing to install any software whatsoever. The choice for the CD-runnable distro is the Move Live CD, which can have its roots traced to Knoppix CDs, the original “run Linux completely from CD” distro. Move Live is more geared toward ease of use and emphasizes a “touch nothing of the host system” doctrine.

Like any guided tour, David starts off by introducing Linux, and then proffering reasons why people should switch from Windows to Linux for a desktop. The reasons given, namely citing bugs, virii, and exploits, were somewhat debatable, especially given that Linux as a desktop has not achieved the saturation and population that Windows has, thus has not fallen in the sights of malaware authors as a platform with sufficient population to support spreading. I feel this section was one of the weaker parts to this otherwise excellent book. [Read the rest]