Keith Winston is a recent Mac convert after five years of Linux on the desktop. He still spends most of his time in the Terminal, but appreciates the scrumtrulescent Mac GUI and the fact that Mac hardware just works.

He lives in sunny southern California with his wife and two kids, and he slings code for a local municipality. He also writes for Linux.com and recently created CommandLineMac.com to focus on the Unix-y power of the Mac.

• An RSS news reader with the power of Google, 2008.08.20. Unlike browser-based RSS readers or dedicated news reader apps, Google Reader lets you access your favorite feeds from any computer and browser.
• 3 reasons to run virtualized Linux, 2008.05.22. Reasons to run Linux under virtualization include duplicating your development environment, X11 programs that don't work well in OS X, and exploring different GUI concepts.
• Taking Linux to Mac OS X with virtualization, 2008.03.17. Thanks to products like VMware Fusion, it's easy to run your favorite Linux distro alongside Mac OS X.
• Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on Leopard, 2008.02.15. The combination of Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular development environment. Here's how to get both running under Mac OS X 10.5.
• Restore stability to a troubled Mac with a clean system install, 2008.01.15. If your Mac is misbehaving, the best fix just might be a fresh reinstallation of Mac OS X - don't forget to backup first.
• Moving data from Linux to the Mac, 2007.12.17. When switching operating systems, the best advice is to use standard cross-platform file formats whenever possible.
• Is Mac OS X 'a better Linux than Linux'?, 2007.11.28. Is Apple really competing with Linux, or do the two operating systems have very different goals?
• When to pick Tux over Windows and Mac OS X, 2007.10.15. There are two areas where Linux wins over Macs and Windows: the cost and flexibility of a Linux-based server and the verifiably high levels of security.
• Tips for Linux users coming to Mac OS X, 2007.09.24. Things work differently in OS X: In most cases, differently means better, and in all cases, more consistently.

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