I use gedit for everything I can. I love it so when I saw this article in the Free Software Magazine, I thought I’d share:

Most computer users spend their entire life looking for the Holy Grail. In other words, they spend all their life searching for the perfect editor that supports all their languages, is free as in speech, has spelling, has highlighting… you get the picture. Obviously, there isn’t a perfect editor out there. However, some come pretty close. Ironically, one of them is one that any Ubuntu (or in fact, any Gnome) user has installed, though they may not know it. It’s called gedit (also known as Text Editor).

From FOSSwire:

Vino, GNOME’s remote desktop (VNC) server, is nothing new. It has been around since GNOME 2.8, over three years ago. The only problem with it is the fact that there is slim to no security exposed in the interface. Thankfully, with the release of GNOME 2.22 in a little over a month, we can hopefully stop compulsively worrying about the state of our computers.

And about time, no? Finally Gnome (and therefore Ubuntu) users will be able to access their computer remotely without having to do a marathon securing it from each end. As nice a feature as this sounds though, I’ll be holding out for a while on actually using it until some proper security bods have had a go at defeating it.