via DesktopLinux.com, Dell is apparently going to offer Ubuntu on a couple of new systems:
Dell isn’t resting on its recent consumer Linux PC laurels. The computing giant has added a new laptop — the Inspiron 1420 Notebook — to its Ubuntu Linux 7.04 offering. It is also replacing the Dimension E520 desktop with the [...]

Hmmm… Apparently I’ve been hanging on to an article that I wanted to link to here. The article is “Suddenly, the Paranoids Don’t Seem So Paranoid Anymore by Tony Long (via Wired). Long is writing about Google’s Street View team and their willingness to take photos of anyone, anywhere:
But just to be safe, Google [...]

Wow, I am actually ending my string of consecutive “Links for XX-XX-XXXX” posts (sometimes I think that del.icio.us makes that too easy) and writing an actual entry in this here blog. And wouldn’t you know, it’s a sad one.  (via Wired): “Red vs. Blue, the cult hit, web-video series created from in-game Halo footage, concludes [...]

It took friggin’ forever, but Amarok is finally able to transfer album artwork to my beloved iPod Nano! Supposedly, album art support has been in Amarok for a while, but it didn’t work because Amarok couldn’t correctly set the iPod model string.
Well, fortunately, Amarok 1.4.6 has been released. And even more fortunately, it is already [...]

I went a little nutso at GoDaddy today and registered a bunch of new domains. There’s one in particular that is related to this bog, a new shortcut to get here. You can now use http://apt-get.us to get here, instead of http://apt-get.biffster.org. Either way takes you to the same place, one’s just a little easier [...]

Linux.com | Turn Vim into a bash IDE
Cool. There’s also a perl version (Perl-Support) that does the same thing for coding in perl.
(tags: vim bash ide linux howto vi)

LINUX ON DESKTOP: Over 16 Small Games For Ubuntu Linux
(tags: games ubuntu linux debian)