This has two handy uses: As a backup for your system or as a Live CD of your system. As a backup it will allow you to re-install a fully customized system in the same, simple manner in which you installed your base system.

Last week I talked about using cut and paste within Screen. You can also use screen for several other useful tricks as well.

Author was curious to see what the final Windows 7 release feels like. He is a hardcore Free Software activist and also a gamer. And Windows is the only serious operating system for games. In gaming, only the sheer market size counts, weak technology be damned.

The Ubuntu Software Store just made it into the default installation.
Here are some screenshots for your viewing pleasure.

The decision to replace Pidgin with Empathy in Ubuntu 9.10 has not been without controversy, or second thoughts on the part of Ubuntu developers.  Much of the discontent centers around concerns that Empathy does not yet offer the features to compete with Pidgin.  With this in mind, I took a look at how Pidgin and Empathy line up when it comes to delivering the functionality that most people look

What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.

Microsoft has denied that it has stopped work on the Hyper-V drivers for Linux that it released in July. Greg Kroah-Hartman had noted in a recent status report on the state of Linux drivers that Microsoft had not responded to the over 200 patches that had been created to clean up Microsoft's code.

Correspondence between Jim Gray (now deceased) and Nathan Myhrvold (now the world's biggest patent troll) reveals Microsoft's reasons for disdain for GNU/Linux in 1998