Back in 2007 Xandros struck a patent deal with Microsoft, while in June this year they said they were: “kind of getting away from being a Linux company.” I never […]
People often ask me questions about Linux and the other day someone wanted to know what I thought the difference was between Ubuntu and Fedora, essentially. In a recent interview, […]
Old news I guess, but Fedora 12 will revert to Fedora 11 style package installation privileges which will prompt for the root password. Fedora 13 should implement the idea fully. […]
Marco Zehe writes that Thunderbird 3.0 will be out soon. While four main issues remain, there have been lots of improvements, especially in the area of accessibility. Firefox has certainly […]
Looks like Google has released instructions on how to build Chrome OS from source (therefore Chromium OS). I haven’t tried this yet, but as far as I know there aren’t […]
The Fedora 12 Constantine GNOME Live CD is Mono free, but installing GNOME from the DVD pulls in not only Mono itself, but also support for Windows.Forms (mono-winforms), which is […]
To manipulate video files I usually just use ffmpeg on the command line, but I just came across this GUI tool called Linux Video Converter which is a PyGTK script […]
Thinking of buying a new laptop? Take a look at this report before you choose.. SquareTrade analyzed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty […]