Nice Touch - How Ubuntu Karmic Koala Handles USB Flash Drive

If you insert a usb flash drive, Gnome in Ubuntu Karmic Koala will pop-up an icon at your desktop. This is a Mac-like default behaviour of Gnome desktop, but Karmic has more. If you right-click the drive icon, a pop-up menu that shows up will present you whether to 'Unmount' the device or  'Safely remove the drive'. These choices seems redundant, but I think it is a smart design. If you click 'Unmount', the drive icon where disappear from the desktop, but the drive icon will still be available through Nautilus. If you want to remount the drive, all you have to do is click the icon at Nautilus, the icon would then re-appear at your desktop.

If you select 'Safely remove drive', the icon would disappear both from the desktop and Nautilus, and you can plug-out your device from the usb bay.

Myths of Linux Distros and Microsoft Linux

Myths of Linux Distributions and other operating systems ...
shermann wrote in sourcecode.de: SSH Sessions to all my Unix Boxes and especially to Linux Boxes never threw
me out from the system, when compressing files. Even with an IO load higher then the Mount Everest. Result of this: Server broke, application crashed. ... Full story http://www.sourcecode.de/content/myths-linux-distributions-and-other-operating-systems

Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it
Dark Atheist wrote in OSNN Forum: A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't. Read the full story here http://www.osnn.net/green-room/98848-microsoft-linux-why-one-free-software-advocate-wants.html

Microsoft Should Run Linux

.An ex-Microsoft employee said in Tom's Hardware Guide that Microsoft Should Run Linux.
Should Microsoft just give up the whole Windows business and switch over to
a Linux codebase? A former Microsoft Research employee thinks so. ... Full story here http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-windows-7-linux-ubuntu,9008.html