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I am very skeptical about Google’s Chrome OS having any real clear advantage on the security front. Yes, it will have different advantages, but as the article points out, there are some big issues before calling it secure.
First off, what is being done about phishing? Because unless this is firmly addressed, the entire project is [...]

I remember the first time I used Ubuntu. Already being a Simply Mepis and Linspire user at the time, the jump to Ubuntu was only odd based on the use of the GNOME desktop over that of KDE. A few weeks of use later, I found myself loving GNOME vastly more than my info overload [...]

Despite having a shiny Google OS wrapper, Chrome OS will be at best, yet another Linux distro. Perhaps in some ways, bearing a striking resemblance to gOS that also relies heavily on Google Web Apps to get things moving for its users.
This article is demonstrating something valid that I many people are losing sight of. [...]

It’s a piece of information that eludes and confuses people from the very first day they hear about it. Linux is not an operating system. No, rather it is a kernel that is used with various distributions that make up different bundles of software that happen to use the kernel.
Perhaps an easier way to look [...]

Continuing you on from part one:
Question: What is WINE performance like?
Outside of launching IE4Linux out of need, I never use it. WINE is a great effort, it really is. But sadly, it is not as great as people like to think it is. I avoid it like the plague and instead use native programs designed [...]