As you may recall, in the previous part (Part I) of this 13 part analytical series about GNU/Linux, I gave a little introduction about GNU/Linux in the Past and a general quick view of the transformation that GNU/Linux has made in Desktop area.

You can do a bunch of stuff with your laptop’s touch pad, all by installing a quick program and modifying your xorg.conf file.

Things like horizontal or circular scrolling, super sensitivity and converting your synaptics touch pad into a fully functional battle station.

Founder of Mozilla explains how a sense of purpose and an eye for easy use has made the Firefox browser such a success.

Today is second day of my OpenMoko 2007.2 testing. I do it as part of my work for OpenedHand and this gives me possibility to discuss bugs with applications authors before reporting to get some details

Pre-configured for simplicity and ease of use, you’re productive in minutes, not hours.

"I’m pleased to announce the release of Flock 0.9.1 less than 70 days after the launch of 0.9. Today's upgrade to Flock includes over two hundred bug fixes and feature enhancements..."

Big graphs are not the only way to visualize data in a text document. Using a couple of tricks, you can spice up your OpenOffice.org Writer documents with sparklines – word-sized graphs embedded into text. Developed by infographic guru Edward Tufte, sparklines provide a simple yet effective way of visualizing data directly in the text body of the document.

Shae Stevens in the Ubuntulite group has put together a workable deb that, when installed via aptitude, brings in the entire framework for an ultralight system. It’s built around Openbox with XDM, and has a nice array of default applications to keep your old Pentium II in business.