The newest, fast interface, USB 3.0, is finally out, but only one operating system has native support for it: Linux.

Ever get tired of Windows people proclaiming how their operating system has device support for this, that, and the other thing and Linux doesn’t? Well, now you have a perfect come-back. The newest, fast interface, USB 3.0 is out and only Linux has native support for it.

Linux started supporting USB 3.0 in the September 2009 release of the 2.6.31 Linux kernel. Neither Windows 7 nor Snow Leopard currently supports USB 3. Windows support? That will have to wait for Windows 7 SP1 —whenever that shows up.

Read the full, glorious article here - http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6956/1/

Providing me with a very convenient follow-up to my last post, No Antivirus Needed, the German government has warned that Internet Exploder (as we affectionately call it here) is not safe and has urged internet users to use alternative browsers.

“The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems.”

Well now, that’s something. Read the full article for the sordid details while you’re downloading Firefox or Opera.

Check it out!

Gavin Kendall / Psyphen Codewalker
http://gir.slampt.net/~gavin/