Deciding if Ubuntu is right for you as a desktop solution is as easy as downloading the live CD and taking Ubuntu for a test run. Trying to decide if Ubuntu is right for your small office is a little more complicated. Here are a few steps you should consider when trying to decide if […]

One of the most impressive things about Ubuntu is the committment to release an updated version once every six months, something unheard of in the world of operating systems. With a new release every six months, you might find yourself upgrading before you’re used to your old release.
I started using Ubuntu last summer at Dapper […]

If any of you Ubuntu-ites… Ubuntu-ers??? What every we are, those who favor the flavor of KDE for your Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn 7.04 has been released in Beta and testers are needed for the update tool.
I’m a boring Gnome user myself, but I completely understand and concede the superior candy that Kubuntu provides although even […]

Switchers to Linux are often heard saying "It looks a like Windows.", and it does. Well, it can, but it doesn’t have to.
Gnome and KDE drive most Linux distros, but Beryl could change everything.
As we’ve said before, Linux works, Linux is free and people want Linux. What happens if you take those three Linux truths […]

If one day you should, oh let’s say, get to work and not be able to login to your small office Ubuntu server setup like you usually do, don’t worry, help is here.
My normal office practice is to do a full system backup on Fridays before leaving the office. I begin the backup sometimes, quite […]

Today’s Protocol is all about spreading Linux Love.
Slighty Paranoid Debian Developer turned me onto the closest Linux has ever come to an iPod commercial. Okay, so it’s actually just a video of a guy swapping out his old bios for LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside, but LinuxBIOS is a cool enough by itself.
Check […]

Is HP trying to outsmart Dell at their own game? Dell’s Linux bait and switch generated plenty of interest but Dell seems to have turned they’re back on the idea and may even be censoring posters to its website designed to solicit ideas about how to save the sagging stock.

An HP rep said
“We are […]

Dell is removing posts from the Dell Idea Storm website according to Triston McIntyre.
Dell seems to be balking at the prospect of offering linux after baiting linux lovers to offer solutions as to how Michael Dell should save his sinking ship. Not only is Dell pulling back from the original idea, McIntyre says Dell is […]

Dell is seriously contemplating desktops with pre-installed flavors of Linux as an option to Microsoft Windows. Dell is getting out on a limb with one of those hair-brained ideas that every genius CEO implements at least once in a career to salvage sagging stock. If Michael Dell doesn’t screw it up, offering Linux on desktops […]

If you don’t already have a backup plan working for your Ubuntu system, your’re nuts. Few things are as easy as a full system or incremental backup in any Linux system, but when using SBackup to do your dirty work it really is as simple as install, config and forget about it.
SBackup is a cross […]