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Some features to note: LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice Shotwell photo manager - iPhoto lite Banshee music player is default with Amazon mp3 store Ubuntu Software Centre with app ratings and reviews and recommendations Firefox 4 Bottom panel is gone Global menus like OS X (File Edit...

Gun laws in America are very liberal compared to the rest of the world, in the true sense of the word.

Earliest Linux experiences I had was probably in the late 1990s / early 2000s. Some friends of mine were all into Slackware. They mainly used it to host Quake games and some other hackery. I was like - slack what?? What version of Windows is that? I also thought at the time - what is the point...

By security testing, do you mean network hacking tools? Backtrack is awesome for that. There are a few forensics live CDs out there as well. Like this one: http://www.plainsight.info/features.html or this one: http://www.deftlinux.net

Yeah anything Intel based is great in Linux out of the box.

http://www.virtualbox.org ? VirtualBox is great. There are a few php interfaces folks have written for it. And it has an entire command line thing to start / stop vms. http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/ http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html Can customize to optionally disable vt-x...

It's safe to assume a user on the arstechnica forum is in the IT business of some kind. FTP sends usernames / passwords in the clear. It's extremely bad and not good at all to use. There is also the anonymous aspect of FTP servers which are perhaps tradition and can sometimes be enabled by...

Headless DVD ripping, native in Linux? Just use handbrake in Linux. It has a command line version. It in fact started out command line only back in the day. http://handbrake.fr stmiller@brahms:~$ HandBrakeCLI --help Syntax: HandBrakeCLI [options] -i <device> -o <file> ### General Handbrake...

If you are migrating to Linux, why not just use any of the various Linux dvd ripping utilities? Also, some people have had success running windows rippers in wine if you want to give that a shot? But if you need a native windows app, you may have to rip and make a decrypted ISO first in Linux...

I don't know if this applies in your case, but: - Keep the number of true user accounts on the box to a minimum. Many exploits come from limited accounts that have shell or executable access on the box and do bad stuff. If you have users who need to sftp and such, you can setup 'rssh' for...

- Anything 100% intel based (intel cpu, intel graphics) - Atheros wifi works out of the box - though many vendors don't tell you the wifi chip in the specs. In general the Asus netbooks are good.

Yeah using Handbrake with any preset works for me (Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy S).

Yeah Apple will have to make a cloud-iTunes. Here are the steps for using a 'Post-PC' Apple device: 1. Purchase new iPad/iPhone/etc 2. Have to first plug into a PC before use 3. Must forever be connected to a PC with iTunes for general syncing, backup, to refresh podcasts, and such. :confused:

prices? I believe ars requires you to list a price.

I don't have any suggestions but I've seen reports of similar youtube + flash related issues. ex: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1700932 :/

Politicians may know how things work, but the problem is corruption.

This book is awesome: http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Enginee ... 0072264543 I'd say it's worth it to get this book. There are some differences in RHEL 6 (postfix instead of sendmail as default, probably the main biggie) but a lot is the same: - start / stop services in linux - check logs /...

Maybe Ubuntu's default kernel is not as slim as Debian's? Ubuntu has a lot of stuff on startup that if you don't disable will run all the time: saned (scanners?) bluetooth - runs if you have bluetooth or not Evolution alarm and other processes running 24/7 if you use Evolution or not cups -...

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Most hosting companies (godaddy, 1and1, etc) have a push button install to 'enable' wordpress. There are tons of wordpress themes out there to go from there.