Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: wider use of the new notification system; more attention for maintenance the LTS releases; slideshows introducing Ubuntu during the installation process; bandwidth management.

After much discussion my CEO agreed to deploy Linux in our Content Department. Next, the issue on the table was which distribution to deploy.

At some point, nearly everyone who uses Linux has someone ask them "what's that?" This question almost invariably leads to "why is it better than " What do you say when someone asks you this?

As Spring approaches, people prepare to welcome the warm weather, the singing robins, and the return of ballots to vote for the new Debian Project Leader.

I have read this article and asking if Ubuntu has reached a plateau. I have read a few responses of what should be a desktop is or should be, an evolution or revolution. Well, the desktop war could never end just as real wars around the world come and go. But what is it to me? I am just an average end-user that preferred to try out Ubuntu. And Ubuntu calls itself the "Linux for human beings".

In this article I explain why I think that the rulers should be hidden by default in Openoffice.org Writer.

I recently saw Gary Vaynerchuk's keynote at FOWA Miami. One of the things he said that really struck a cord with me was that when someone sends you an email to inquire about your product or are looking for advice you should see this as a compliment and should not put off replying for one second.

On Monday evening, just before calling it a night, I decided to attend to that little 'updates available my OpenSUSE 11.1 notebook. There were half a dozen updates, one of them being a kernel update, which doesn't happen too often.