A well known phenomenon here in the Linux world is “disto-hopping” or installing distribution after distribution in order to try out the latest and greatest, find out what’s cool, and perhaps even discover the next big thing or a hidden gem. Distro hopping can be tons of fun, but it can really kill your productivity [...]

One of the coolest features in recent Ubuntu versions is the “Create a USB Startup Disk” function. It lets you take any ISO for LiveCD distribution and create a bootable USB drive. This is a great way to try out new distros without wasting tons of CDs that you’re probably just going to throw in [...]

This is definitely one the coolest free software advocacy tools I’ve come across in a while. It’s a PDF brochure I discovered via Ubuntu Musings that makes explaining some hard concepts about free software (why is it no-cost? how do programmers get paid?) an easy thing to do. The illustrations are simple to understand, yet [...]

This is short video from Linux Journal provides a great intro to creating symbolic links on Linux system. If you’ve never looked into what you can do with symbolic links, watch now!

Cool, huh? I use symbolic links all the time on my system. For sharing files (put a link to it on my wife’s [...]

Adrian Try has a great post out highlighting five open source alternatives to Microsoft Outlook for the Linux desktop. The usual suggestions are there (Evolution, Thunderbird), but there are some other options you may not have thought of as well, like the Kontact suite for KDE, and Spicebird, a collaboration suite based on Thunderbird.
Personally, I’ve [...]