One of the main reasons that most people are afraid to try Linux is because they have this preconceived notion about linux being too hard to use and difficult to maintain; or that they have to do something drastically differ ant and there is a steep learning curve to using linux. After reading most of [...]

Today I came across a nice article by cnet on Linux user interface. The article obviously was geared towards new users who might be interested in Linux. This is a welcome change where everyday more reputable blogs and technology websites are opening up to Linux and introducing it to their reader base, who otherwise probably [...]

Firefox is a great web browser, there is absolutely no argument about that. However those of us who are using linux long enough have went by quite well without it, and some still do. In the spirit of linux and open source (not so much for opera), it is only fair that we are aware [...]

Some time ago I wrote a howto on installing xcache for linux (here) from source. While xcache requires a certain amount of learning, tweaking and configuration to get it right. For instance, you will have to manually edit xcache config for number of processors/cores used in your system; which will reflects other aspects of the [...]