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ITtoolbox Blogs: Are multiple desktops really useful
One of the biggest differences between the windows world and the linux world is the windows world only has one desktop while the linux world can have several. For example KDE comes default with four desktops and can have up to twenty. That's a lot of desktops. However are all those desktops really useful?

Ran Prieur: Switching to Linux
The distro I'm using to type this is Puppy, which technically doesn't even have a desktop environment but window manager, JWM, which takes up less than 200 kilobytes.

Linux Weekly News: Playing with the OLPC
The One Laptop Per Child project is likely to be familiar to most LWN readers by now. An important milestone on this project's plan for the creation of low-cost educational systems is the production of "BTest-1" systems. The project has manufactured on the order of 1000 laptops and distributed them to testers worldwide as a way of, hopefully, shaking out the remaining hardware issues and making a start on the software side of the equation. Some systems have even been shipped to Microsoft so that some sort of Windows port can be done; this move has upset some OLPC supporters, but when the designers of the laptop said they planned to make a 100% open system, they meant it.

Debian Weekly News: December 26th, 2006
Welcome to this year's 42nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. DWN is currently not being published weekly but when authors have contributed enough items because its editor can't ignore other duties while the Debian project is indirectly paying some developers.

Spidertools: Power Management for Ubuntu
"There are two methods of power management for your laptop; ACPI and APM. APM or Advanced Power Management is the older of the two and works with the BIOS of the computer. The disadvantage of APM is that the BIOS functions and manages the power without any real understanding of the operating system. The advantage is that it is well supported by Linux distros."