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iTWire: I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer. So, let’s dig deeper – here’s the ultimate showdown with IE vs Firefox under Vista. Does IE leak like a sieve or is SuperFetch a genius strategy?

iTWire: For every person who has said, “Let’s network these two computers” there are many more asking “Why is the network running so slow?” Yet, the ethereal nature of Ethernet has long made computer networks hard to decipher and many a business or home user has longed to peek into the data stream to see just what is going on. You could pay tens of thousands of dollars for the answer – but we’ll do it using freely available tools for Linux.

iTWire: Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.

This article made it to the front page of Digg!

iTWire ran a feature recently on virtualisation. Here are my two contributions: Linux-based virtualisation – the way to save money and go green, and Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?

Hoorah! It’s iPhone-eve! The world will be watching as the clock draws towards midnight … except one segment of phone buyers who have been totally excluded. In a mess of mixed messages the telcos seem to have hired the famous Seinfeld soup Nazi as their director of enterprise and government pricing. That’s right, “No iPhone for you” despite the claims it’s a better business device than BlackBerry.

Here’s my story about trying to buy an iPhone to sign up to my company’s corporate pricing plan. I was continually told it wasn’t possible. I tried to dig further to find out just why out of every mobile phone my telco offers this one is so different. The reason, in my view, is due to Apple’s demand for a grab at the ongoing cash — which at the same time makes a mockery of their claims to now offer enterprise level features like push e-mail.

iTWire: What could be cooler than the brand spanking new 3G Apple iPhone? How about adding your own content to it? Here’s how to begin writing your very own programs for the Jesus phone, replete with flashy effects and pictures. All you need is a Mac and an iPhone. Heck, you don’t even need the iPhone – here’s how to get an iPhone emulator too!

iTWire: Anti-Linux evangelists try to level many claims against the free open source operating system Linux. Arguments against the base cost (nothing!) or about the turnaround time to repair security exploits don’t work. But there is one item in the anti-Linux arsenal which often hits hard: lack of support. Here’s why it makes good Linux techies groan when they see it.