Fedora 18 Gnome Shell desktop has the Power Off option in the user menu by default.

The new Fedora 18 Linux distribution has the Power Off option available in the user menu by default; negating the need to install an add-on from extensions.gnome.org to add this functionality. This is a very good addition to the new Fedora distribution. According to this blog linked here: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3-6.html. There are other problems with the … Read more

FreeBSD operating system adopted by Netflix for hosting, and what Linux needs to improve on.

The FreeBSD UNIX distribution has been adopted by Netflix as the operating system of choice for their streaming movies service. This does not mean that they will be adding code to the FreeBSD codebase, Netflix are planning to host their service on FreeBSD powered Apache servers. FreeBSD is a reliable and powerful server operating system, … Read more

Windows XP needs replacing. This is a fact.

Windows XP wallpaper. I am writing this post about the Windows XP operating system we all know and hate. I can not believe it is still used in 2011. Microsoft should release a newer and better operating system that is more reliable than this horrible concoction that is prone to file corruption and other misdemeanours. … Read more