After several years of trying to find a good note-taking solution, I've finally settled on a local installation of MediaWiki on my Ubuntu laptop for managing information relevant to my academic and personal pursuits.  Below, I outline my experiences with the software, and explain why the ease of deploying it and similar packages on Ubuntu is one of the platform's greatest, and perhaps most under-

Regular readers will remember quite a few posts in which Your Humble Narrator complains about this, that, or the other flaw in desktop Linux in general or an Ubuntu distribution in particular. Well, I take it all back.

The error "Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive" sounds bad, but it's actually much worse if set carelessly.

Both Ubuntu and Kubuntu are based on the same cannonical distribution and core. The only (and important) difference between them is the desktop environment offered with either option.

Automotive telematics display firm Yazaki North America announced an instrument cluster display based on embedded Linux, designed for reconfigurable dashboard TFT/LCD displays.

After several delays Fedora 11 is finally here.
Here's a short feature list + screenshots

NVIDIA's ION platform is designed to provide superior graphics performance and quality than what is available with the Intel 945 graphics that up to this point were all that was available in Atom-based products.

Fedora makes a great choice for both beginners and advanced users as it balances stability and cutting edge applications. The Fedora distribution effectively fills the needs of home users, programmers and servers alike. Unlike many Linux distros, Fedora always includes the latest versions of software this adds to the excitement of its releases which happen every 6-8 months.