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IT Wire: "But then there are fanatics among the users of every operating system, the Taliban among computer users. There are some who even praise Windows - that's how bad it gets."

Although it may seem like your computing life is all e-mail and browsing, computer users still create files, documents, spreadsheets, boring presentations and all manner of other stored information.

What are the benefits of using Open Source software? Open Source programs may be developed, improved and maintained by a community of programmers, but its programs can be useful to computer users of all levels.

A lot of computer users today are having a battle within their minds on why they should completely switch to Ubuntu and never venture back into the world of Windows and Mac ever again, well I am here with the solution to thy problem.

Tech News World: "Microsoft has angered Chinese computer users with its latest antipiracy move. On Tuesday, during its Global Anti-Piracy Day, Microsoft turned Windows Genuine Advantage loose on the Chinese people."

Chinese computer users have reacted angrily to a stealth anti-piracy program from Microsoft that blacks out their screens.

For the past four years, computer users beginners and experts alike, programmers, NGOs and free software advocates have celebrated every third Saturday of September as Software Freedom Day.

Most computer users today are spoiled by the richness of the graphical user interfaces or GUI. In Linux, we have dozens of desktop environments that compete against each other for dominance.

Right now, GNOME seems to be winning. However, accessing servers remotely using the same desktop environment puts a heavy demand on the network connection...

PC-BSD 7 has just been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual computer users.

The release may be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

" My verdict: Even in the relatively slick Ubuntu variation, Linux is still too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users ", says Mossberg .