goplay is an interesting browser application that allows you to locate nifty packages for Debian-based distributions. It uses DebTags, the built-in descriptive categories used in the repositories, to locate new packages. There's a whole slew of pre-made package browsers at your disposal, such as...

The Wine icon is old. It’s ugly. It looks like it was made for Windows 95 (it was). All this is enough reason to change it to something, but what does a good icon actually look like? The Tango project has an answer to this question.

After upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 to Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 I was getting error messages from flash sites like Youtube telling me to install the latest Adobe Flash or to turn on javascript reinstalling the plugin from synaptic didn't solve the problem

Arch Linux is a strange beast. It's closer to Gentoo than anything else, and even that comparison is imperfect. It's a do-it-yourself, minimalist OS that has everything I don't want in a desktop.

"RailsConf is going down next week in Vegas. I’m sure it’s going to be a great show and can’t wait to get out there. A few of the presenters have been blogging about the presentations that they’re doing..." -- see also Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs ;)

I haven't read it yet myself, so we will do so together. Here's Groklaw's timeline page for the appeal, and you can find the documents there. Here's SCO's appeal brief and this is Novell's brief that this one is replying to.

There are various ways to build a live cd and since 11.2 Milestone 1 there is a new one: clicfs. I’ll try to explain:

Ubuntu Linux isn't just an operating system -- it's an ecosystem. Here is a quick guide to help you wind your way through this desktop jungle.