I had to send my netbook, an Acer Aspire One, for repair after three months of use. I had installed Fedora Core 10 XFCE respin, but when sending in the unit I knew that Acer would probably re-install Windows.

Since the turn of the decade or so, it's been regularly reported that every year will be the year during which Linux finally breaks out of its box and gains a major foothold at the desktop level. It hasn't happened yet.

Although some of this stuff is old, here are some funny Easter eggs I bumped into over time.

Looking for a mature, open source database that’s not owned by Oracle? Whether you’re already a fan or are looking for alternatives, now might be a good time to take a look PostgreSQL. The latest release of Postgres has a slew of built-in features that allow you to improve both performance and systems administration. Learn how you take advantage of them.

New to Ubuntu? Want to share your Ubuntu experience with the world? Well with this flowchart you can! Step by step this chart will walk you through the process of making a blog all about Ubuntu. Follow this formula on a daily basis and you'll be on your way to popularity within the Ubuntu community!

If you aren’t doing remote backups you are at risk. In this post we discuss the problems with incremental sync backups and encryption and how to effectively produce encrypted remote backups that are bandwidth efficient. We will leverage an existing FTP server or show you how to set one up on your friends computer so you can swap data and never have to pay for a backup service again.

Comparison between Sun's vocation and Novell's. WHEN Novell had approached Microsoft (not the other way around), it soon invented software patents as a business model for offering added value to open source software. Sam Dean, inspired by Matt Asay, compares the strategy of Sun to that of Novell and he has hardly any good things to say