"Wow, it’s been a long road getting to this release date, but I am very excited and proud of our team to say that today we released our beta 1 of Jaxer -- what we believe to be the first true Ajax Server product..." -- via John Resig by John Resig: http://ejohn.org/blog/server-side-javascript-with-jaxer/

It’s the start of the Ubuntu Developer Week! So what’s going on later today?

Ah Vim. You can’t live with it and you definitely can’t live without it. It’s the world’s most powerful (and arguably the most popular) text editor, yet it’s virtually impossible to understand. You start typing, and nothing happens. You look for the save button, and it isn’t there. You try and exit, and Ctrl-C won’t do it. Fear not!

I know that this subject has been hacked up by people all over the internet, but now it’s my turn. I’ve been using Ubuntu on my laptop for a few months now and I think it’s great. The operating system starts up and shuts down quickly. It hasn’t crashed or suffered any periods of slowness and I love the idea of being able to search for software and install it AND have the operating system maintain it. After my Ubuntu experience, I had to ask myself, “What’s holding desktop Linux back?”.

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.

Our aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation/production. We also want to spotlight what’s out there. Show users tools they might not have known existed

SINCE LAST week the coastal city of Rosario, Argentina's second largest city and home of about a million people is among the growing club of World cities with free municipal Wi-Fi access.

Sorry if I’m the only person who’s confused about Canonical’s mobile Linux strategy. The company has at least two Ubuntu software projects — one for Netbooks, the other for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) — that sound strikingly similar. So what’s the difference between Ubuntu for Netbooks and Ubuntu for MIDs? Canonical gave me some answers during OSCON 2008.

I presented some thoughts on “Linux” and “GNU/Linux” in a recent post What’s in a name? GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux?, trying to make the case to use “Linux” in preference to “GNU/Linux.”

Screencasting is the process of taking a video capture of what’s happening on your screen. It is a great technique for doing tutorials, or explaining something you’re doing on the computer visually to someone when you’re not geographically close. In a sense, it’s like inviting someone to look over your shoulder at your computer screen, while you explain what’s going on.