Linux® Desktop Garage

Chapter 3. System Tools and Utilities

“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”

—William James

Everyone's mother has a favorite anecdote. You know, it's the story that gets told to all the people you ever bring home right after she drags out the “adorable” pictures of you as a toddler taking a bath. My mother's favorite story is one that she thinks demonstrates the personality differences between my sister ...