Last six months my main operating system is Ubuntu. I got used to the Linux file system, command line, Debian packages, compiling from source, customizing, scripting, KDE and Gnome.
For a time I was in a some weird newbeesh state where I could use operating system but I was full of questions and lost whenever something [...]

XAMPP is a software bundle consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database server and PHP hypertext processor. XAMPP is the easiest way to start with web development. It’s easy to install, just follow instruction on it’s web page. Unfortunately, on Ubuntu it doesn’t work immediately. When starting, I got some error message:”<code>arch: command not found</code>”. [...]

When I installed Ubuntu I couldn’t find any backup tool with features I wanted. I also wanted some exercise in Python so I wrote a backup tool and called it PySync. In meantime it became obvious to me that there is much better way to backup under Linux. As always with Linux, there really isn’t [...]

I’ve successfully replaced almost every application I had in windows with alternative one available in Linux. There is only one application I don’t have suitable replacement for: SyncBack.
I needed some exercise in Python, high level scripting language, so I decided my first project will be PySync: the simple synchronizer written in Python. Although I’m writing it to solve my own problem I’ll try to make it usable for others.

For more then ten years i was perfectly happy with Windows as my only operating system. I like when things improve and Windows was improved in each version. Hardware compatibility, overall stability, security, user interface: they all changed for better in each version of windows.
In case MS don’t succeed in making Vista a great OS i want to have another choice. Some time ago I tried some Linux distributions on virtual machine and now I installed Ubuntu 7.10 as dual boot to XP. Now I have greatest dual boot system I ever had.