Does your windows OS have your down?  Mac OS not doing it for you?  Have you been thinking about giving one of the many flavors of Linux a try?  Well, if you have, Tech Radar has 25 tips for Windows switchers.

It covers questions such as "what is a distribution", "what is a live CD", "getting a grip on the file system" and several other really good topics.  This isn't an end all be all guide to Linux, however, for those that might be interesting in making the switch or taking it for a test drive, it's a great primer to get your foot in the door.

The good folks over at Ubuntu have cracked off another new version of the free OS. There are several ways to download it for free, order CD's for free, or if you really like to help, you can offer to pay for a set of CD's to be shipped.

I'm currently stuck without a spare PC to test out the new version.  I may give it a shot using a virtual PC setup and see how that goes but it will be after the weekend.  If you are thinking about trying Linux out or maybe tried it a long time ago and didn't care for it.  I'd like to suggest you give Ubuntu a try.  They have made it very simple to install, it updates itself in a very similiar mannor to Windows and in most cases, installs a lot faster than Windows and also support just about all the hardware there is out there.  Of all the distributions out there, Ubuntu has got to be the most user friendly, no doubt about it.

Give it a try, I doubt you will be dissapointed.

For a long while now I've been wanting to get back into linux. Many moons ago before Techography came to be I was a slightly more then ameture linux geek. Then working in a complete Windows environment stole any time I had for continued learning.

Now things are different. I have a laptop with enough power to just about run anything (Dell 9100) and things at work have slacked off enough to allow me some playtime at work and at home. So last week I jumped in with both feet. Being that I have always been a Red Hat guy, I figured I'd try Fedora Core 3.