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 [...]

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 [...]

I just read at Lifehacker that Moonlight (the open source answer to Microsoft’s version of Flash) version 1.0 is released. I think this is cool, as we are beginning to see a few websites implementing  Microsoft Silverlight technology–and it’s never fun to be left out.
That being said, I personally haven’t ever had occasion to visit [...]

I wrote a new post today for the WorkLifeCreativity blog on 5 super awesome productivity tools that you can use on any operating system…Linux included!
A couple that you may not have heard of are the ThinkingRock GTD software and Mozilla’s command-line interface to the web, Ubiquity.
Check out the whole story: 5 Killer Cross-Platform, Open [...]

Just a quick post for those of you settling into the latest version of Ubuntu! Enabling USB in Sun VirtualBox is a little different in Intrepid Ibex than other versions. Remember, you’ll have to have the closed source, Personal Use and Evaluation version of VirtualBox for this one. The Open Source Edition (VirtualBox OSE) doesn’t [...]