After several years of trying to find a good note-taking solution, I've finally settled on a local installation of MediaWiki on my Ubuntu laptop for managing information relevant to my academic and personal pursuits.  Below, I outline my experiences with the software, and explain why the ease of deploying it and similar packages on Ubuntu is one of the platform's greatest, and perhaps most under-

Shades of Xen/Ignition Partners/Citrix maneouver in Vyatta's round of funding

If you are looking for an extremely lightweight but full-featured IM/chat client for your old Linux box, or if you are just feeling geeky, then you should try CenterIM. --It's a text mode but user friendly menu and window-driven instant messaging interface that supports major chat protocols like ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, and many others.

Through this book developers will learn to create their own applications using the Liferay tools. They will learn to work with the JSR-286 portlets and Extension environment, thereby building larger applications and reusing portlets in different scenarios. Users will also learn to build Struts portlets with permissions and a set of actions.

Troubleshooting has always been one of the most frustrating aspects of computer ownership. Due to the practically infinite number of potential problems, it would be utterly impossible to write a how-to guide to fix all of them, but in this article we are going to address some of the most common problems.

Well, the laptop has been running Ubuntu Studio 9.06 (64bit) for almost two weeks and so far the verdict is: Bye-Bye Vista!

This article is touches upon learning how to leverage some of the real power of Linux via the terminal. The terminal gives you full control of everything behind the scenes.