There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about everything and Linux is no exception. Most of the misconceptions about Linux (you have to use the terminal, its only for geeks, etc.) are understandable in that you can figure out where they came from. There is one that still stumps me a little bit: Linux updates break things.

The first step to learning Linux is actually installing it. I'll assume you're coming from Windows, mainly because I haven't used a Mac in about 8-9 years and things have changed with them since then. And if you're using something besides Windows, Mac or Linux, you probably don't need my help with anything!

Just found this and thought i had to share it:

Firefox insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as act slow when using the awesomebar, try the following (close down Firefox completely first):

for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f ‘VACUUM;’; done

It’s harmless, no data will be lost: it compacts your SQLite databases. Noticable gains for me.

The Linux command-line can appear pretty complicated and occasionally even a little alarming. But it also offers a whole stack of helpful documentation which you can access directly from the command-line. Read on to learn how to help yourself when – or even before – you get stuck.

Ten Reasons Not to Like Linux (with rebuttals inline)

Source code is the set of instructions that some programmer wrote for your electronic device. That programmer may very well have been me, and I may have told that device to despise you and to do anything in its power to make your life hell. Keeping that in mind, take a long, hard look at your laptop. Do you have any idea what that thing is thinking right now?

A cool idea for a small client/server post of load data viewable from a Web browser. Allows you to keep an eye on your server loads from any location and can easily be tailored to add whatever data you like. Its admittedly a rough hack, though the concept may be of use for other projects.