Sam Varghese of Australia's iTWire took a look at Mandriva Linux 2008, following his recent review of OpenSUSE 10.3. "All in all, I found it to be staying in line with what it was - a distribution at the cutting edge, simple and easy to set up and use."

This article explains some of the more important syntactic and semantic differences between two of the most popular assemblers for Linux®, GNU Assembler (GAS) and Netwide Assembler (NASM), including differences in basic syntax, variables and memory access, macro handling, functions and external routines, stack handling, and techniques for easily repeating blocks of code.

I have been watching Linux for years, but it has never been my main operating system, Windows and Mac do dominate my life, but I feel a change is starting to come. In my mind Mac OS X is still the operating system to beat and Windows is a long way from catching up. Linux on the other hand is getting closer with every release.

Greg sent me this article at the New York Times,"Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again" and Stacy says (via Matt ) Ballmer is hunting for Open Source Start-Ups.

Informationweek continue their endless, "What's wrong with Linux" series. This week it's our security, among other things. As one of their long-suffering readers suggests, "How about articles on what Microsoft can do better?"

If you have ever read my comments on the PC World forum, it is obvious that I love Linux. But many people are afraid to use a new operating system because they are so attached to Windows. They are scared of the possibility of having to use the command line!

Is Linux pushing the envelope a bit too far, too fast? That's the question posed by Charlie Babcock's interesting article on the pace and scope of Linux development. Dan Frye argues that Linux represents a "first-of-a-kind developer community." Most people don't recognize this, thinking that all open-source projects are similar to Linux... Not at all.