Lxer.com has all the Linux news

If you're interested in Linux news, Lxer stays right on top of it, linking to relevant news, blogs and other meanderings about the free, open-source operating system all day, every day. It's the place I go when I want to find out the latest in Linux.

Here's what Lxer says about itself:

LXer (http://LXer.com/) is a fully independent news and opinion site, established in January 2004, by Linux veteran Dave Whitinger, a well-known personality in the free and open source software community.

LXer is one of the most widely read Linux community news and opinion sites. People turn to LXer for its frequently updated news feed and comments. Over 400,000 unique users from over 165 countries visit LXer each month, and LXer is syndicated by Google and dozens of other community sites. CIOs, CTOs, government officials, as well as programmers, system administrators and end users make up our very active community.

Our top quality editors create, edit, and present information about GNU/Linux and free/open source software via our frequently-updated newswire.

Here are the people behind Lxer (check out the headgear).

An example of the great stuff that Lxer has led me to, is this entry, 13 Things to Do Immediately After Installing Ubuntu, which leads here, if you want to skip a click. It's a way to take care of all the stuff that Ubuntu doesn't do for you, the reasons being mostly political and geekical (no closed-source software, no access to NTFS file systems, no proprietary CODECs, no Microsoft fonts, enabling the "multiverse" to get more software, etc.) Do this after installing Ubuntu and you'll be that much closer to having a system that does all the stuff it should be doing.

And, after that, get the Kubuntu and Xubuntu add-on packages so you can toggle between the three desktop environments while not being limited to one or the other.