Matthew Newton - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Matthew Newton

Article | 27/06/2007 A Look at Fedora 7

Fedora is solid, and the people who use it and hack on it love it, and I don't think these people are crazy in the slightest. I do think, however, tha...

Article | 27/06/2007 A look at Fedora 7

Time for some self-criticism: Free Agent has become a bit of a one-trick pony of late. Recent output might lead you to believe this is PC World's Ubun...

Article | 26/06/2007 Ubuntu 7.04

Ubuntu Linux has been deemed one of PC World's Best Products of the Year for two years running. Why? It's completely free, it installs easily from one...

Article | 20/04/2007 Seven post-install tips for Ubuntu 7.04

So, you've just installed Ubuntu 7.04, otherwise known as the "Feisty Fawn" release of everyone's favorite (for now) flavor of Linux. You booted the <...

Article | 2/03/2007 All about Wine: Run Windows apps under Linux

A couple months back, I was at home, working on some changes to my personal Web site. I wanted to see how my work in progress looked in Internet Explo...

Article | 24/11/2006 Dabble with Dapper

We let our resident Linux specialist out of the basement for five minutes and he's straight back to his old tricks - spruiking Ubuntu.

Article | 1/05/2006 Filling the gaps

A lot of people seem to get themselves about 90 per cent of the way to where they want to be with their Ubuntu installation and then hit a wall. "Why ...

Article | 1/04/2006 Desktop difference

A perennial e-mail in my inbox asks: "Should I use KDE or Gnome?" While tedious, it's actually natural for a user arriving from the land of commercial...

Article | 1/03/2006 Not magnifique

I used Mandrake Linux for years before switching to Fedora Core and then to Ubuntu Linux last spring - around the same time Mandrake, which is based i...

Article | 8/02/2006 Mandriva Linux 2006

Mandriva Linux 2006 feels very much like a natural evolution of earlier Mandrake releases--in both good and bad ways. As we tested the PowerPack editi...

Article | 31/01/2006 Free Agent: Ubuntu's missing batteries

I haven't talked much about Ubuntu Linux since last fall, but Ubuntu-related e-mail keeps pouring in. Apparently quite a few Free Agent readers have t...

Article | 20/01/2006 The Lizard King

SUSE Linux 10.0 is the latest edition of a venerable Linux distribution that Novell took under its wing nearly two years ago. SUSE has always been kno...

Article | 13/01/2006 Easy, breezy badger

Unable to stay away from his favourite flavour of Llinux, Matthew Newton checks out Ubuntu 5.10 - the breezy badger.

Article | 11/12/2005 Dual-bootable; more doable

Linux is great, but sometimes a guy's gotta play games. Here's how to set up a quicker Dual-Boot to get you back into windows.

Article | 11/11/2005 Everyday Linux gripes

As you already know, if I have to sit down in front of a computer, I want it to be running the Gnome desktop on Linux. I've watched it mature from a d...