Get Creative. Development of open source applications for artistic creativity has exploded in the past 5 to 10 years. You would have to be very particular indeed to not find an app for your Ubuntu machine that didn’t satisfy your personal artistic needs. Not only that, but some of these Free Software projects have gone mainstream in a big way.

This Web Is Your Web. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web back in the early 1990s, he wrote a protocol that is open and free to use and akin to the spirit of the Free Software movement itself. To this day, he conceives the web as a means to connect people more than just connecting machines.

Shell Shocked. So, what’s the deal? Surely we have transcended having to type obscure commands on a black background. Is this not something reminiscent of the bad old days? With modern distros, you could never leave the safe haven of your graphical desktop, true, but you’d definitely be missing out.

Explore the World. The great outdoors offers a world to discover. But you wouldn't go anywhere interesting without a plan and a camera, would you? With the right tools, Ubuntu can also be part of your adventures. Read on to find out how....