I like cake. It is yummy and can range from sweet to salty, hard to spongy and have all sorts of culinary goodness in it. Cakes are also normally reserved for special occasions so that makes them special in their own right. If you tell a child that we are going to have some cake their eyes go big and round, their mouths pop open and they get all excited.

There are numerous little things that a new user should learn and remember when it comes to Linux. Now don't let these scare you, but rather, remember them to ensure that you have a proper user experience. These will also save you from a lot of trouble as you learn Linux.

People like to publish top-10 lists of all sorts. And "reasons to switch to Linux" is no exception. Many of those have been published, and the latest entry is here. However, I think the author completely forgot a very important point.

Are computers funny, or is it really the cartoonist? ;)

Running commands one right after the other can be a tedious way to get things done from the shell. What if there was a way to "chain" these commands together? Well fortunately Linux provides some ways to allow you to type in a bunch of commands at the prompt and run them as if it was one command.

Shawn Powers shows you how to automatically start programs in KDE 4.

"This tutorial will show you how to setup a very convenient python IDE in Emacs. Many ideas in this tutorial came from emacs python wiki and Ryan McGuire Homepage . Many people on #emacs channel of freenode.net provided valuable help. Freenode is one of the best communities I ever known. It really takes time to combine all kinds of modes together and make them work.