Linux

One thing I will never miss from my days in the PC repair business was having to explain to a client that their PC was no longer. The matter goes from bad to worse when there are concerns regarding the expense for people on a fixed income. It can be heart breaking when these individuals [...]

Previously, I spoke of providing a decent backup solution for new computer users who are making a new PC purchase. Well, after doing a little research, I found a solution that is not only cross platform, it is dead simple to use. It’s calledCrashPlan.
I first set up CrashPlan on my Ubuntu notebook. After extracting the [...]

Despite reservations early on, there is something to be said about rolling with a 64bit operating system. Sure, there have been issues with both Windows XP 64bit and Linux 64bit. But now that software is becoming available for both platforms along with the benefit of extra RAM capacity, things are looking much brighter.
One of the [...]

Just wanted to give everyone the latest. As you may remember, I wrote an article about my discovery that apparently Ubuntu was being sold at Best Buy via Valuesoft. I had expressed concerns as to the legitimacy of this and decided to just by the CD myself. After all, it is currently be sold in [...]

Wow, this certainly surprised me. Today I found out that Ubuntu Linux is now being sold at Best Buy online and even at some stores. And normally I would say this is great, except there is a problem - what the heck is Ubuntu “complete” edition? To my knowledge, Canonical (owner of the copyrights and [...]

Today I received news from a media contact of mine that Linspire has been purchased by Xandros, the company best known for Linux on the ASUS Eee. While this may be sad news for some, I do not think the ripples are going to be felt by anyone in the Linux community for a variety [...]

Today Wayne asks:
I have been using mint 5 and really impressed with it. there is one drawback to it some sites require Adobe Flash Player and there is none available for mint 5. The KDE version works fine but i would like to stick with gnome any work around?
Well there are a number of things [...]

If you were to take the article seen here at face value, my article’s title may very well be the reader’s conclusion. Once you get past the rabid Mac fans who have made their perspective clear in the comments, there is finally one comment that actually sheds some light on what I think is the [...]

I don’t believe there is any question that here soon when you use Windows on a PC, it will be Vista. Despite begging and pleading with the Redmond giant, Microsoft has made their thoughts on the matter clear and now closed - there will be no reprieve, XP is a goner.
So this will mean a [...]

Have to admit, despite the fact that I cannot seem to make Dell products appear at my door step for the life of me, this news of a Dell competitor to the ASUS Eee is rather compelling for what it is. And much like we have seen with the ASUS Eee, you will be able [...]

So like many desktop Linux users drank of the Ubuntu Kool-aid once again and as expected, I am finding myself both loving it while also being disappointed with issues that were totally preventable.
Fix number one- Loving PulseAudio, it was a long time coming and it brings us to even set to Windows Vista. I can [...]

Gnomie Rossgang writes:
I don’t know if “restoring” is the right word, but here is my problem.
Like other people getting bored with Windows and wanting to try out a new operating system, I downloaded Ubuntu Linux and burned it to a CD. Then, as the directions read, I placed it in my PC to try to [...]

Never laid eyes on a Classmate PC in my life outside of the provided demos on the Intel website. This said, I have done fairly extensive testing on the Sugar OS used for OLPC computers. Based on what I have seen, there is no contest - the Classmate stomps the OLPC pc into dust with [...]

Windows or Linux, one thing I think is important regardless of OS is making sure that when a PC is being serviced, there is a solid hardware audit underway. On the Windows side of the fence, I found one program that I really liked. It is called WinAudit and man, it is slick.
Unlike other apps [...]

As long as computer operating systems have been around, there have been zealots and advocates for each and every one of them. OS/2 anyone? This includes all platforms, big and small… I remember working for a large pharmaceutical company near Chicago immediately after college, where there were regular heated debates about the superiority of DEC’s [...]

Are we doing enough to attract new users from the IT community? The results are right here, many of the IT pros do not see Vista as an option any longer, and I personally see a fantastic opportunity for various Linux distros to make a name for themselves going forward. Here’s a solid opportunity to [...]

Why is it that we can manage to sway countless hardware manufacturers into looking our way yet those who work in other business circles continue to ignore Linux to the point of almost being laughable? Today, we will highlight these companies, just to remind them how their decisions are costing them money.
World of Warcraft: Keeping [...]

Gnomie Kaleb (aka hyp3rdrv) writes:
Hey Chris! My name is Kaleb, and I’m a new viewer. I saw your video on Ubuntu a couple of months back and decided to try it out for myself. It’s been tough getting used to it, but I really like it now. Despite this, I have run into a [...]

In the past, you may have heard of Linux CDs like Knoppix, being used to help users to recover data from failed Windows installations due to malware or other problems. But did you know that there are ways of repairing Windows without booting into Windows or Linux? Check this out…

Using AVG Live CD -You read [...]

These days, thin clients are not really news. Whether the clients are running Windows or Linux, the market is anyone’s ball game at this point. Well, that is until I found this: the Jack PC. As the wow factor goes, this device had me from this moment on…
They can be powered either through a plug [...]