I like using Linux, it makes me feel secure. But there are still things even Linux users have to watch out for.

I know Linux is much better than windows when it comes to security. But still sometimes I feel like we may feel to safe on our OS.
There certainly are some issues we all need to watch out for in our daily lives. At least that is if you don't want to fall prey to the evil computer users around you.

Feeling to comfortable with your security is a problem in itself, if you think nothing can harm you, you may get careless. Carelessness makes easy victims.

Following is a list of some of the issues we Linux users have to be aware of.

installing Eclipse 3.4 in ubuntu with the google app engine sdk plugin.

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As I'm trying to learn perl, and I'm trying to learn perl GUI programming in the process I've been browsing the internet for information. I've chosen perl-Gtk as the GUI framework for the start of this journey, there are some arguments against this choice as readers commented in previous articles, but I'm happy with it.

In my previous article I described installing the EPIC plugin in Eclipse. I think this is a great editor and I definitely appreciate it a lot. I do have some problems with it, it seems to me it's a bit buggy, if you just want to use it for writing code you won't have this problem, but I want to use it for debugging and there it gives me some problems (crashing, unexpected results). It works OK for some programs but I want to use it for debugging GUI programs and I'm afraid it just isn't perfect for the job(yet).

Other IDE's

I need to extend my programming knowledge, I know as a system administrator, I should automate everything I need to do more than twice and therefore I need more programming skills. I've been thinking of learning shell programming, as it is the most ubiquitous in Linux systems. I already know some shell programming and for most of the simple tasks I can easily write a small shell script. The problem is I really need more to become more skilled, to speed up the things I do and make my life easier.

Linux will never rule the desktop, and here's why:

If you draw a line giving the rate at which Linux is taking over the desktop you'll see it'll take several years from now to become the biggest operating system on desktops.

This is never going to happen, because the desktop as it is will die long before we reach this point.
The good thing is Microsoft will probably die with it!

Don't think this will happen?

There has been a big shift in interfaces before, when we went from command line to gui based.

How green is Linux?

In my previous post 10 things to tell your kids when you ditched windows for linux

One of the comments argued that Linux is no more energy efficient than Windows.
So I did a little research.

First of all there's the tickless kernel

Linux MCE is superior to windows MCE

* Cost

The number one reason for choosing Linux, people have reported building a Linux media center with $400 total cost. Top that! Of course if you have unlimited budget this is not an argument. On the other hand what can be defined as unlimited? With equal money you will always be capable of building more. That's why big movie studios use Linux.

What you need to know about Linux if your coming from windows:

1. There is no registry in Linux

In windows there is the registry, the registry is a database which keeps all your settings. If you want to change anything not in a menu (or in a menu) you need to use the regedit program. Or a script.
In Linux there is no such thing as a registry.

2. In Linux everything is a file