I’ve moved my desktop at home from a Windows XP to a Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 - and soon the new Intrepid Ibex), and have had to google a bit to find the answers to my following “problems”.
Here are some of the issues I experienced, and some possible solutions (and as usual, there are several different solutions to each problem).

Thanks to their design as appliances, you can get down to useful work straight away with any of the new breed of Linux-based netbooks. But sooner or later, a fair few folk come up against the unfamiliarity of Linux.

As part of an ongoing experiment, and effort to help my fellow students, I've been working on a project to inform everyone I meet, any chance I have, about the benefits of Open Source and the joy of using Linux and BSD on their computers.

In some respects, the worst enemy of open source software — the ideals, the commercial success, the mindshare, the development success, and the widespread use of open source software — is GNU/Linux.

The clipboard system in Linux (X11 to be more specific) receives complaints from users who expect it to work differently when applications are closed.

Last week, I received an email from a friend, his company Floating weeds has produced their debut film. I rushed to watch the film online and guess what the film was in WMV video format. The standard Ubuntu doesn't ship with proprietary codecs like WMV, you can still watch such videos with just few mouse clicks.

There are several iffy new things about the sub-notebooks business, so we cover them here

Microsoft patents that shock, Nokia promotes software patents, EU under threat too