If you’re brand new to Ubuntu, or Linux, many concepts will be alien to you .....For this reason, I've put together a two-sided printable guide which explains, in very simple and easy-to-understand terms, how to install most software in Ubuntu.

We here at Make Use Of try to make your switch to Linux as smooth as possible, which includes using simple and common terminology. However there are plenty of terms that are unavoidable or at least impractical to avoid. Some terms we can explain as we go along, but some are so common that they would need explaining in every article.

Some more Unix humor to round out the weekend. A few song parodies, some clever paragraph reworking and command line jokes.

This image has set the Internet on fire. No big details yet, but the main scoop is that GNOME 3 will also have GTK 3. Going by the current release schedule, that is a year and a half from now in 2010, unless things change.

Poedit is a cross-platform gettext catalogs(*.po files) editor. Usually, translators use conventional editors such as gedit, vim or kate for translation. These are basically text editors and there is possibility of making mistakes easily. Poedit offers several features which can help to translate the files much faster and in an efficient way.

A look at some more security on-the-cheap, using mkfifo.

Getting onto the ‘Linux ladder’, making your first steps into the world of Linux, can be daunting, especially without support. There are lots of books specifically targeted towards beginners and Ubuntu, and Apress’s Beginning Ubuntu Linux, by Keir Thomas and Jaime Sicam is one.