Even though Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux, lately he has been quite outspoken about where he thinks his operating system is going and what its competitors are doing wrong.

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Torvalds had quite a few complaints to bring against both Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista.

“I don’t think they’re equally [updated to fix word] flawed – I think Leopard is a much better system,” Torvalds said. But then he added: “OS X is in some ways actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”

“I think [Mac] OS X is nicer than Windows in many ways,” he continued. “But neither can hold a candle to my own [Linux]. It’s a race for second.”

And while you would expect this kind of propaganda from the operating system’s founder, does he even speak to (or for) the Linux community anymore? If you ask me, he’s just another wolf howling in the night hoping someone will agree.

Why you ask? Because although Torvalds has his own belief about what Linux is and should be going forward, the vast majority of its users disagree. Let’s face it — if it were up to Torvalds, beauty and intuition would take a backseat to functionality. But when you look at distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuse, it looks like no one is paying attention.

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February 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Yahoo Inc. this week introduced a new monthly Web Hosting service for small and medium sized businesses, which provides unlimited hosted storage capacity and bandwidth.

Subscribers to the new service, priced at $11.95 a month, are free to take up as much disk space on Yahoo’s servers as they need to transfer data, store information or secure e-mail without fear of shrinking capacity restrictions, the company said. The service is only available in the U.S. from Yahoo’s Small Business division and costs $11.95 per month.

Previously. Yahoo had charged companies $12 a month for 5GB of disk space and 200GB of bandwidth per month; $20 a month for 10GB disk space and 400GB of bandwidth; and $40 for 20GB disk space and 500GB bandwidth, said Guy Yalif, director of web hosting products for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo.

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It’s the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. Soon, you may not have to. Some of the Internet’s biggest players — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign — are working on a new single sign-on that would take some of the hassle out of surfing the Web. The five companies on Thursday became the first corporate board members of the OpenID Foundation, which is behind an industry-wide initiative aimed at creating the system.

Okay kids I was posting about this little rascal a year ago,Baldy

 

Internet Bigs Back Single Sign-On

Here ya go folks maybe the most complete collection of Linux cheat sheets on the web. I am sure that you will find one or two that you have not seen yet.

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