Whether you are trying Ubuntu for the first time or you are a long-time Ubuntu power user, you will find below a list of the best Ubuntu resources on the Web. You name it: websites, forums, wikis, blogs and podcasts.

"Canadian Stephen Vermeulen keeps a regularly updated list of open hardware initiatives, which he calls product hacking. This is a good occasion to refer readers to our own page, which contains a full listing with links, on the various projects we know of. Go to that page for the links and further exploration..."

This guide is a collection of tips and tweaks for Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The content comes from tutorials and speed suggestions found on the Ubuntu Forums and elsewhere. The material has been collated and narrated, and arranged with links to external resources or supplemental information.

I have a Perl script to check the outgoing links from blogs for me, via planet sites. Yes, the planets aggregate the blogs, and the script snarfs the links from the planets. I'm so meta it hurts. So I have a bunch of link data, going back a little more than a year.

"...Let me repeat. People don't create links to server software; they create links to information. Service Oriented Architectures are about creating links to software. Resource Oriented Architectures are about creating links to information. Change your frame of reference."

Microsoft’s operating systems keep needing more and more resources, but consumers keep wanting cheaper and more portable hardware, hardware for which Vista is not well suited. This creates an opening for Linux, because it does not demand as many resources and is costs nothing.

"Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources.

Red Hat has revamped its strategy here to work more closely with partners, both local and global, putting more resources to focus on Thailand.

Daily updated blog with a lot of high quality open-source resources for web developers.