I’m a huge fan of ArsTechnica. Through the articles he’swritten, Jon Stokes has taught me a ton of stuff about low-level principles ofCPU design and actually made all that CompE stuff interesting. It’s byfar my favorite site for general techie-related stuff.

Anyway, I noticed that the finally unveiledtheir new site design today. It looks really great, but this entry in the Redesign FAQ caught myeye:

Q. Why did you change over from Linux?

A.This is a loaded question, so we'll be brief. Ars started out on Windows NTback in 1998, but shortly after that we moved to FreeBSD, and then later,Linux. We ran Linux until March of 2004, when we made the move to WindowsServers. Linux and Apache had served us quite well, but when we turned to lookat building our new CMS, .NET was simply soattractive for our needs that we felt it warranted the switch. Ifthere are enough requests, we may do an article later documenting our thoughtprocess, but for now I'll say that thedecision was largely a programming one, with the added benefit ofthe fact that more of us support Windows in our real lives than Linux. (emphasis mine)

Glad to see more people recognizing that.NET is just a kick-butt platform to write software on.