Use Bitcoin: Credit Cards Weren't Designed for the Internet

by Dietrich Schmitz Just yesterday, I registered my account at Coinbase, one of the largest most reputable, secure web Bitcoin brokers in the World. The choice was careful and made after a period of weeks of study.   If you don't know the history, during the past 12 months, Bitcoin has grown into a full scale 'made for the Internet' web commerce payment solution. Credit Cards Pose Unacceptable Risk Bitcoin stands to replace...

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Fedora 20 LXDE Spin Tune-Up Tips and Tricks

by Dietrich Schmitz Regular readers will have figured out by now that I have a particular obsession affinity for Fedora.  It has things that make it just 'better' than the competition. Still, competition exists and Fedora is not everyone's cup of tea.  And isn't that the way of the world? It seems that it suffers from an arguably undeserved reputation for being more difficult to set up and use.  Some of that is true, still.  But,...

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Linux Consolidation Continues: CentOS Joins Red Hat

by Dietrich Schmitz The news that CentOS has joined the Red Hat family is positive. "With today's announcement, Red Hat extends its commitment to rapid open source technology and solution development to deliver: Commercial development and deployment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, offering an extensive ecosystem of partners, a comprehensive portfolio of certified hardware and software offerings,...

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Top 5 Linux Desktops: Where Do You Want to Go Today?

by Dietrich Schmitz Overview No one can disagree, the level of choice one can have for coupling a graphical user interface to Linux to achieve the Linux Desktop metaphor has grown and become quite extensive. (Image right: Fedora 20 Desktop Edition) By comparison, Apple's OSX and Microsoft's Windows legacy x86 7/8 have little choice to offer, by default. I've been thinking about whether or not having so much choice is a good thing or not. ...

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