Nice blog with curious title: I' Been to Ubuntu
While Googling for information on encrypting filesystems for something I'm working on, I came across many a good Ubuntu blog — yep, there's lots out there for the Ubuntu user who wants to figure things out, and that makes the Canonical-sponsored rendition of Linux even more attractive to people whose geek skills are less than complete (and yes, I count myself in that number).
One blog that looked really good, despite an awful name, is I' Been to Ubuntu, which has many, many good articles and appears to be updated quite often. The blog is subtitled, "Videos and articles helping you understand Debian and its derivatives," and I always appreciate a site that gives Debian its due (and I continue to believe that it's not really any harder to run Debian than Ubuntu, and if Debian treats your hardware well, then it's a no-brainer; unfortunately my hardware hasn't been so well-treated in the Lenny era.)
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
I would be careful about recommending sites that does not have a place for reader comments. This is an anti-Ubuntu site and it is anonymous, hit and run yellow journalism, IMO.
The I' Been to Ubuntu site (http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/) doesn't seem to be anti-Ubuntu, and if you click on the "comments" link below every post, you can sign in and leave a comment.
This entry, http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/04/big-picture-timed-release-failures.html, has nine comments so far.
Sure there's criticism of Ubuntu, but it's very constructive, and we all have bones of one sort or another to pick with the various projects we work with. It's pretty easy to find a "positive" Ubuntu post. Here's one on all the new Jaunty features: http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/interesting-new-features-in-ubuntu-904.html
Another very helpful post on extra repositories: http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/extra-repositories-for-ubuntu-810-you.html
A short post on the encrypted home directory in Jaunty: http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/02/ubuntu-jaunty-now-with-option-for.html
The blog includes a lot of GNOME content, which is helpful in a number of OSes, including Ubuntu, Debian, even Red Hat, Fedora and OpenSuse.