Software Reference

I've finally bitten the bullet and upgraded the OS that come with my eeePC 701 netbook. Things were starting to run slowly, and in particular firefox kept freezing when running ajaxy websites (such as gmail). Asus doesn't seem to push out the updates, so I've defected to eeeBuntu – a distro which has taken Ubuntu and tailored it to the eeePC.

So far, it feels like a breath of fresh air.

Suppose you're doing a crossword and you're a bit stuck. You know the answer starts with an M, and you're fairly sure it ends ING. But you can't figure out what word it is.

Luckily, you have Linux (or some other unix) on your machine, so you can run a simple command to find the answer.

Read on to find out more.