Features
Article | 12/08/2008
12 great apps for bridging Windows, Linux and Macs
Blogger Ron Barrett has scoured the IT world to bring you this list of affordably priced business productivity tools that run on any desktop (many are...
Article | 10/07/2008
Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0
A few weeks ago, the OpenSUSE Project announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, the "community" edition of SUSE Linux, Novell's commercial Linux distrib...
Article | 2/07/2008
Making desktop Linux work for business
Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows X...
Article | 11/06/2008
20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know
No one loves to pay crazy per-user licensing fees, not to mention 15- 22 per cent annual support residuals. (And no one loves the endless, mind-numbin...
Article | 3/06/2008
Desktop Linux face-off: Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Fedora 9
Over the past decade, Linux has emerged from a herd of obscure and nerdy operating systems to warrant a place in even the most technologically unsophi...
Article | 9/04/2008
OS Smackdown: Linux vs. Mac OS X vs. Vista vs. XP
Since the dawn of time -- or, at least, the dawn of personal computers -- the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction p...
Article | 13/03/2008
Poor nations gain more choices in computing
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has highlighted the need to provide computing to kids in the developing world, but headlines surrounding th...
Article | 9/10/2007
Open source CMSes prove well worth the price
When last surveying open source Web CMSes (content management systems) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for no...
Article | 3/10/2007
A generic tracing API for Linux
Dynamic kernel tracing remains high on the wishlists presented by many Linux users. While much work has been done to create a powerful tracing capabil...
Article | 30/06/2006
Making your Linux installation (more) malware-proof
Windows XP, left unpatched, is vulnerable to malware that can make it shrivel up and die within a few minutes of being connected to the Internet. Even...
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 | 14/09/2005
Google dives deeper into networking
No longer content with indexing billions of items on the Web, Google during the past year or so has been expanding its offerings into areas such as de...
Article | 1/12/2000
Putting Linux to work - Mounting file systems
Putting Linux to work - Mounting file systems
Article | 1/12/2000
Technology - The future of Linux and open source
Technology - The future of Linux and open source
Article | 15/11/2000
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Linux is the first release of a fully-featured graphics suite for Linux.
Article | 15/11/2000
Web serving revolution
Not only does Linux now offer much faster networking, it also offers the ability to run a kernel-level Web server.
Article | 15/11/2000
Printing with Linux
Printing with Linux is very useful and, although manual configurations can be tricky, it is an essential desktop tool which should not be overlooked b...
