Special Report: In this morning’s post, I linked to Neil McAllister’s piece about migrating to Linux desktops, wherein he recommends beginning with Ubuntu — but you don’t have to. Indeed, there are half a dozen alternatives, all viable. Red Hat, Suse, Xandros, just to kick things off. “Trying them all would be a time-consuming task, but here are some pointers to start you in the right direction,” Mr. McAllister writes. Related: Linux desktop applications. Notes from the field: Comcast, it appears, has been caught playing with customers naughty bits, Robert X. Cringely reports. The company has been accused of killing off BitTorrent file sharing when the Associated Press tried to transfer the entirely public domain work The King James Bible and received a bogus error message. Comcast into the fires of hell. “This is yet another reminder that it’s not your computer (it’s Microsoft’s or Apple’s), it’s not your music (it belongs to the record companies), and it’s not your Internet connection (it’s your ISP’s). How many more things can THEY get us to pay for and not own?” Best of the blogs: By bowing to the European Commission’s antitrust demands, Microsoft opens the kimono. “For the first time, Microsoft’s competitors will have affordable access to the code needed to make their enterprise products fully interoperable with the company’s own,” explains Bill Snyder. “Since so many major software players are multi-national, the effect will be global.” Related: Microsoft’s European vacation. Live Chat: The debate brewing at Nick Corcodilos’ Ask the headhunter blog about whether or not to use a resume when pursuing job opportunities will be discussed live in the IT Careers Chat Room of InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect today at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time. (Registration is required but, hey, it’s free.) Technology Industry