Ubuntu

While many individuals are changing over to Windows 7, the folks who are in control of making the changes at the workplace still are not convinced. This time, it’s not because the IT managers don’t like Windows 7, it  is because they are not anxious to make a jump to something that is different enough [...]

First, bear in mind that this is a first look, and I have not spent lots of time with this new version. I have stopped downloading most Linux betas because they don’t last long, and I can sit back and wait for the end product, where once I was not patient and thought it was [...]

Microsoft may be working at cross purposes, as it tries to tell everyone that staying with Windows XP is a bad move. Stating that Windows XP is less secure, or simply old, makes many who can’t afford to switch to a Mac, or don’t want to make a move to Windows 7, think about the [...]

Netbooks are the darling of the computer market right now. Definitely the fastest growing segment are those little, lightweight units, easily carried for hours by the girliest of men.
Seriously, the netbook is something that is going to reach down into levels of the population never thought of before, not only because of its diminutive size, [...]

While we are are buzzing about Windows 7 today, the good, the bad, the same old same old, there is another less funded, and less reported release, the Release Candidate of Ubuntu’s regular scheduled product, Ubuntu 9.10, or Karmic Koala.
I suppose it is a testament to quality that the Karmic Koala release was not sped [...]

Just about the time you thought it was at least possible to casually peruse the internet without full armor, it appears that it’s time to put the chainmail back on, no matter how much it chafes.
Places you thought you could trust are popping up with embedded trojans, making it unsafe to peer through your firewall [...]

Yes, she seems to have used ALL CAPITAL LETTERS for parts of the effort, and, to really upset the applecart, red was also used for some of the boisterous communication.
With fewer and fewer people communicating in person these days, and written word taking the place of voice in many cases, it becomes more and more [...]

Every company these days is involved with making the operating system boot faster, much to the credit of Microsoft, and Vista, with its boot times that seem to require a calendar to reckon.
The latest Ubuntu builds have claims of under a minute, on standard hardware, which is very good, considering that this is a cold [...]

In a piece about the market share of Ubuntu outside the United States, Christopher Dawson writes about the innovation that is going on using Linux outside our borders. Since his pieces tend to highlight education, I sometimes discount what he says as being from a too narrow viewpoint, but after reflection, and some other digging, [...]

There definitely must be something in the water over at ZDNet, or else it’s national take Microsoft to task month, and I never got the memo.
In another astounding change of tune, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes assesses the XP Mode of Windows 7, and it gets an ‘F’. This is quite a change from the accolades that were [...]

Canonical, the parent company, established by Mark Shuttleworth, of Ubuntu, is usually fine sitting in the background and stand on its laurels, not wishing to be confrontational.
I guess that those times are gone, as one of their faithful has delivered a small piece to set right some of the events of the past couple of [...]

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time.
Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcoming release of Ubuntu, due in one [...]

Four Canadian college students decided that building an amateur (ham) radio would be a really neat thing to do, and to prove how well they had learned what they were taught in class, would try to make contact with something special.
Well, the International Space Station is fairly special, and requires a bit of talent to [...]

Few people think of IBM as a player, in anything but the largest corporations, today. The line of thought is this - IBM only has older software, that runs on older, and big, machinery. OS/2 was their last hurrah on the desktop.
Well, that would seem to be totally wrong. First there was the release [...]

Ars Technica has an article expounding upon the changes to the next revision of Ubuntu, arguably the most popular operating system of the Linux variety.
The tale begins with news that the upcoming release will include support for the sub-notebooks based upon the Intel Atom processor. Very nice, but what portion of the market will be [...]