IT Toolbox has a great little summary of the experiences of Mike Kavis, a guy who's been living Microsoft free in an all Microsoft shop - at work! It all started from an "eat your own dog food" challenge (something i did with my wife which finally precipitated the switch to Linux on her part). Check out his other articles in the series:

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Linux Journal has an interesting article about how to set up Linux for your grannie. There are some great ideas to consider there.

A lot of my work involves network tracing (hence my recent wiki page), and it would be great if i could do this with a really simple, transportable device. Ideally it would have these characteristics:

• Pocket-sized, lightweight
• Two Gigabit Ethernet ports configured as a bridge, so that it can be placed inline on any network connection without affecting traffic flow.
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Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.