Listener Tony emailed me this link today. It’s an excellent article on the pros and cons of some distros and how suitable they might be for new users.
Link to article.
Also - don’t forget to check out the show Furl (link here and in the sidebar). I’m always adding new pages and links to it.

Just a quick blurb that may or may not be necessary.
I recently had a show listener stop by my personal blog. I’m sure that there is more than the one of you that stop by there now and again, but this one of the first comments I received on my personal blog from a show […]

I just got off the horn with Mark Rais from Really Linux.com. I’m finally going to address home desktop GNU/Linux security and since I figure this topic is waay over my head, Mark agreed to help me out.
That will be this weeks show, number #17. Don’t miss it for Mark’s top ten list of things […]

The GNU/Linux User Show #016 (MP3 14.9MB - 43min 30sec)
The GNU/Linux User Show #016 (OGG 24.7MB - 43min 30sec)
MP3: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
OGG: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
We started playing with the wallpaper updated in KDE but ended up playing with AMOR and taking a trip around the themes and such at KDE-look.org.
00:39 - […]

I just got off the phone with Aaron SiegoSeigo (sorry dude!), VP of Partying and Team Lead for the KDE Plasma project.
Our chat will be on an upcoming show, number 18 I do believe, but I wanted to share a little tidbit with you all right away.
If you’re comfortable with editing text files, you might […]

Good to see that the show is getting an international flavour. I hope it’s good…
link

Kodo wrote in to let us all know that Learn Linux has put 5 different self-directed Linux courses online. Free!
The courses you can take are:

Fundamentals

System Administration

Network Administration

Shell Scripting

Internals

Electives

Take a look here.
Thanks Kodo!

Wow.
Am I ever a dork.
I didn’t draw a Win4Lin winner for last week’s contest. That’s been corrected now and Heather Lannoye is the lucky winner of that license.
We’re all done now. All six licenses have been given away. Many thanks for the Win4Lin crowd for supplying us with them to give away!

The GNU/Linux User Show #015 (MP3 20.8MB - 60min 25sec)
The GNU/Linux User Show #015 (OGG 35.6MB - 60min 25sec)
MP3: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
OGG: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
Woohee those OGGs are a pain in the butt! This one’s borked at the moment but we’ll get ‘er fixed shortly. Hang on!
Fixed!
This week I take […]

Kelly Penguin Girl stumbled across this excellent site full of GNU/Linux terminology. It’s alphabetized and looks pretty complete.
Bookmark it (link)!