My friend Joe Eckert recently penned a short, funny piece entitled, "Does Tech Need a Boost? How About "Cash for Vista?". After I got done smiling at it, I thought: why not offer desktop Linux to people with Vista clunkers? Seriously, why not?

xTuple to hold free, educational open source summit - attendees to learn how to profit from free open source software.

Part 2 of this 2 part feature takes a look at alternative audio, video, burning and encryption applications and much more.

I must confess to a good bit of laziness with some of my rants. For Linux Mint, I went whole hog and installed it on the laptop in a spare partition.

To hear some tell it, SCO has emerged triumphant, Novell is vanquished, darkness shall reign in the whole of the land, and male pattern baldness will engulf us all.

Quoting things in bash is quite simple... until it isn't. I've written scripts where I'd swear 90% of the effort was getting bash to quote things correctly.

Wireless on Linux is a perennial embarrassment.  Although the situation has improved immensely since a few years ago, the inability to get wireless cards working acceptably often tops the list of user frustrations. Here's an outline of what's wrong with Ubuntu's approach to wireless drivers, and how to fix it.

After several unofficial leaks, Nokia on Thursday officially unveiled the N900, the company's first Linux phone. It's a good first step to rejuvenate Nokia's smartphone line, but will the N900 have what it takes to go head-to-head with the iPhone and Android Phones?