The Warden

Wow. First, Lifehacker links to my article. Now, the awesome guys over at CNET wrote a whole article agreeing (to some extent) with my article. <3 Matt Asay.

Games as an alternative Linux desktop strategy | The Open Road – CNET News.

How the heck did they get on that list?

Most Successful U.S. Startups 2008 (via)

Here’s what, according to CrunchGear. <3 CrunchGear. I still want a keyboard, though.

What if the iPhone had a keyboard?!!!

Zappos is an awesome company. If you’re trying to start a business, read this.

Zappos Blogs: CEO and COO Blog: Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker.

I just ordered my first computer yesterday: 4GB RAM, a 250 GB SATA 3gb/s hard drive, a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor, a Nvidia 9800 graphics card, and a comfortable 20″ monitor. But while these were all expensive (especially the video card), none of them compared to one item on the list: Windows. That’s the hope that Linux companies must look forward to.

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I’m still worried Gecko is too heavy right now for mobile users, but Fennec is starting to prove me wrong.

Fennec M10 (alpha 2) for Maemo release notes (via) (via) (via)

Listen, folks. The only time you’ll ever be able to beat a search engine as big as Google is if Google screws up. Even then, don’t count on it.

Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom

Interesting, but now we have the problem of too much disk use. All sorts of different versions of libraries will be installed.

Nix fixes dependency hell on all Linux distributions (via)

I came a cross a really interesting article today. Basically, the author’s points boil down to the idea that you need to be cutting edge (old school Mandrake), n00b friendly (easy to use and ultra-stable) , or appeal to a niche (old hardware, graphics users, etc) in order to create a successful Linux distribution.

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Ha! Take that, Vista!

Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista