There are tools available to allow anyone to create and distribute a completely customized Ubuntu Based distribution using the Gnome Desktop.

Print-on-demand sites allow you to create a book the way you want it. But when it comes to creating a cover for your book you might be tempted to hire a professional designer. But before you do that, why not give it a try yourself? After all, there are some great open-source tools at your disposal that can help you to achieve impressive results.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could quickly and easily create your own image, with your own color scheme, at whatever size you choose, all in about 5 minutes? You can, and as usual, it’s Gimp to the rescue.

The ability to login graphically into any computer from a remote location has a number of uses.

In the age of digital cameras, most people are capable of taking reasonable photos. To make an impression with photos, you have to do something really special. Stitching is one option, but this has nothing to do with traditional handicrafts. These days, stitching means piecing individual photos together to create a large-scale panoramic image.

Great free software for Linux. You can access your photos, videos and music from your living room TV. Looks great and has easy navigation.

Linux is known for a lot of great things, but you rarely see it listed as a platform of choice for multimedia production. Some of that poor reputation for multimedia has long been deserved, but in recent years the quality of Linux’s audio and video applications has been steadily increasing. One of the best loved of these is Hydrogen, a high quality drum machine application.

"It is no secret that I'm a big fan of the open source Xen virtual machine hypervisor, and I've written several tools to make using it under Debian GNU/Linux more straightforward. Here we'll take a quick look at using xen-tools to easily create new Xen guest domains."

There are certain aspects to system administration that you can learn only from experience. Computer forensics (among other things the ability to piece together clues from a system to determine how an intruder broke in) can take years or even decades to master. If you have never conducted a forensics analysis on a computer, you might not even know exactly where to start.