An edited how-to guide to help my students install LAMP and Laconica on their Ubuntu desktops.

"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run swank in the background so the fabulous facility of running slime-connect and hacking the live window manager was not available. That and having read about clbuild I wanted to get it working.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide. Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Mostly Linux and Unix humor with some unavoidable MS-bashing :)

The last school year I used PC-BSD, PCLinuxOS and Linux Mint with my students. They wanted Ubuntu though Linux Mint was a good compromise. In retrospect, I should have gone with Ubuntu.

Step by step guide to learn how to build firefox from scratch on ubuntu.

Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.

Linux has long made life easy for tire-kickers. The latest version of Ubuntu, however, makes it simpler than ever before to take Linux for a realistic test drive -- without risking a single byte of data on an existing Windows system.