That’s one you often hear, right? There are too many Linux distributions, and that’s a problem. To some people, who then feel compelled to blog about it. Most of the times, the reasons stated are confusion for new Linux users, and lack of a unified install method for all Linuxes.

If I had to choose only one tool to learn or teach Astronomy, it would be Celestia. Celestia is a program that lets you get up close and personal with the planets and their moons, asteroids, stars and galaxies. You can even follow the International Space Station as it orbits the earth. Celestia runs on Linux, Windows and Mac and requires OpenGL.

I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. It's an AMD Turion 64-based system, and of course it seemed to load just fine. However, for some reason, it stumbled over the Alps touchpad. The touchpad was often completely unresponsive, and when it did work, it generally behaved as if I had drag-lock on all the time.

First thing - the disclaimer. I’m very conscious about not misrepresenting myself to my blog aggregators regarding what my posts are actually about. On the other hand, after looking at my blog stats, search queries have turned up my site for searches roughly along the lines “Ubuntu Wipe Disk” at a rate that I did not expect. So why this disclaimer?

One of the classic problems that newcomers to Linux face is locating and installing software to do the work they want to accomplish. With Synaptic in Ubuntu, installing the software has been made simple, but choosing which software to install can still be a challenge.

Review of 12 web browsers for Linux with screenshots, for both GUI and CLI interfaces. Among the well-known browsers like Firefox, Opera, Epiphany or Konqueror, included are Dillo, Galeon, Kazehakase, lynx, elinks, w3m, links2, links.

I prefer a clean desktop with no icons cluttering it up, but by default most Gnome based distros adds icons to the desktop for every single removable drive that you attach to your system.