Zeroconf sounds cool. Just plug a network cable into your computer and you can see everyone else on the network, without needing to enter any settings. No DHCP server, no file server, just a bunch of...(and the mandatory half an hour asking questions like 'How come I can ping you but you can't ping me?'), but apart from that, where else is such a network set-up useful? Answers on a postcard please

Wouldn't it be nice, when you decided to switch from Windows to Ubuntu, if all of your files and settings could be easily migrated over onto Ubuntu with the minimum of hassle, right from your Windows user... make and test a backup of all of your important files and settings before upgrading to Ubuntu from Windows. There's always a possibility that things could go wrong and important things could get lost

I've been waiting for this feature for a long time. It's so simple and obvious, yet it hasn't been implemented until now. When you delete a file on pretty much any modern operating system, it gets moved...in the Recycle Bin window, right there, where you're most likely to need it. Now Nautilus has a big, obvious Empty Deleted Items button. Problem solved, usability issue over, nothing to see here..

In many ways, Tomboy is like a personal wiki . It lets you quickly create new content and make links between notes, and it even inserts links automatically. The latest Tomboy has gained another wiki...to idea*. On a Tomboy note, go to Tools -> What links here? to see a list of backlinks. * This reminds me of another useful Tomboy-related utility , which creates mind-maps from your notes.

When I'm not learning Physics or writing documentation, I sometimes get bored enough to play Sudoku . If you've never done a Sudoku puzzle before, it's like a crossword for people who can only do the...(in the screenshot), and even a couple of text entries at the top and bottom of each square for you to note-down possible numbers in. If you're a hard-core Sudoku nut, upgrade to Ubuntu Feisty

Encryption is a mystery to me. I've had to implement some sort of basic encryption a few times in my life, but it's never been anything more complicated than a ROT13 algorithm and some sort of checksum...ripping you off here - I can't remember this feature being in Edgy, but the package release logs seem to suggest otherwise, so it might not actually be new for Feisty. Can you ever forgive me

NTFS support has traditionally been weak under Linux; reading NTFS partitions is usually quite stable, but if you're trying to write to a disk formatted as NTFS... well, you'd better keep one finger on...using NTFS-3G. If you have a dual-boot setup (both Windows and Linux installed on the same computer), this package will hopefully be able to save you a lot of headaches, not to mention data loss

Below is a list of all of the Feisty feature posts I've made: OpenOffice gets Tango'd Having problems? Bullet points in Tomboy Get help. Fast. Better session management? Album...the Start menu? Clever Terminal Reliable NTFS support? Surely not... Encrypted clipboard support Snazzy Sudoku What links to your Tomboy notes? A load of rubbish?

So you're following a how-to on the Internet (like I was this morning) and type a command into the Terminal. Whoops! You don't have that program installed on your system. So now you've got to click around...see this feature being massively useful, but it's pretty cool and anything which improves the usability of the terminal gets my vote. Edit: Looks like this is in Edgy too. Must pay more attention

Many of the people who now use Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) started out using Windows. I'm one of them. When I first switched to using GNOME (I briefly used KDE in Xandros before I switched...one: Install the gnome-main-menu package, right-click a panel, press Add to Panel... and drag the Main Menu item (the one with a computer icon) onto a panel to get a Start-menu-like-thing