Imagine if office furniture were manufactured and sold by Microsoft…buying furniture would be so much simpler!

Such was the excitement over Jaunty Jackalope’s arrival last week, that the tremors are still reverberating throughout the blogosphere. It’s been a virtual parade of reviews and first impressions, in fact, with the gradual addition of hands-on tips and advice. Lifehacker, for example, posted a “Top 10 Ubuntu Downloads” list over the weekend, garnering no [...]

Installing Linux is pretty easy, but what options are there for users who want Linux already installed on a computer? Carla Schroder reveals several excellent, affordable options, plus tips and tricks for learning Linux quickly.

Installing Linux is pretty easy, but what options are there for users who want Linux already installed on a computer? Carla Schroder reveals several excellent, affordable options, plus tips and tricks for learning Linux quickly.

A long time ago — meaning, of course, three or four years in Internet time — wikis came to represent the best of the true democratic, user-generated nature of the Web. The collaborative writing/editing of a wiki meant that all voices could be heard, but majority rule would prevail. This segment’s shining example, the “free [...]

The British government said Monday it wants communications companies to keep records of every phone call, email and Web site visit made in the country, but it has decided not to set up a national database of the information — a proposal that had been condemned as a “Big Brother”-style invasion of privacy by civil [...]

Today Eric Geier shows us how Zeroshell makes it easy to set up your own wireless access point with the strongest authentication and encryption, and nice user-management features so you can easily maintain control of who has access to your wireless network.

With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 last week, it’s not too surprising that few other topics got much attention on the Linux blogs in the ensuing days. Yes, there was a rather intriguing discussion of porn and piracy over on DaniWeb and LXer; and yes, a moderately active conversation fired up the Slashdot community following [...]

Without encryption protecting your email messages, you might as well be sending postcards because anyone can intercept and read them. Juliet Kemp tells how to protect your email privacy with GPG and Thunderbird.

Crowdsourcing may be killing a lot of jobs. True, it’s still a nascent business strategy that works well only in certain scenarios, and it can’t be lumped in with outsourcing as the cause of mass layoffs. As is the case with outsourcing, though, it can be particularly difficult to quantify crowdsourcing’s negative impact. Lost jobs [...]