One thing I love about Linux systems is that they run forever. For the most part Linux systems will run from memory, so when a bad sector in a rarely used area on a drive is hit, the system can freeze up or in a more suprising case, fail to reboot.
A couple articles that are really just a collection of tips and tricks for the command line and a few other programs. A lot of the stuff I know I wouldn't use, but there is plenty of material here to make using Linux a little easier.
This is (as of this writing) a two part article of someone giving up their regular operating system for a little while in exchange for a Linux distribution.
