Why Linux Will Never Suffer From Viruses Like Windows

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/why-linux-will-never-suffer-from-viruses-like-windows-120904133958.html

 Hot Hardware: There seems to be a recurring phenomenon in the technology press, where any trojan that affects Linux or Macs becomes front page news.

How Twitter tweets your tweets with open source

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/how-twitter-tweets-your-tweets-with-open-source.html

ZDNet: Chris Aniszczyk, open-source manager at Twitter, explained just how much Twitter relied on open source and Linux at LinuxCon.

How to Make Your Linux PC Wake From Sleep Automatically

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/how-to-make-your-linux-pc-wake-from-sleep-automatically.html

HowToGeek: Want to put your Linux PC into sleep or hibernate mode and have it automatically wake at a specific time? You can easily do this with the rtcwake command, included by default with most Linux systems.

How to move from Windows to Linux?

URL: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-to-move-from-windows-to-linux/

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I need to reconcile these 2 facts:

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Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_luPCWpRBUE/linux-played-a-vital-role-in-discovery-of-higgs-boson

An anonymous reader writes "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Linux systems are used every day in their analysis, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT. Linux plays a major role in the running of their networks of computers (in the grid etc.) and it is used for the intensive work in their calculations."

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Why Microsoft's Metro Push Is Good for Linux

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/why-microsofts-metro-push-is-good-for-linux.html

Datamation: The Windows 8 interface may prompt a certain group of users to adopt the Linux desktop.

Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/r69bm9gdxJ8/stuxnetflameduqu-uses-gpl-code

David Gerard writes "It seems the authors of Stuxnet/Duqu/Flame used the LZO library, which is straight-up GPL. And so, someone has asked the U.S. government to release the code under the GPL. (Other code uses various permissive licenses. As works of the U.S. federal government, the rest is of course public domain.) Perhaps the author could enlist the SFLC to send a copyright notice to the U.S. government..."

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