The transition from Windows to Linux can be pretty intimidating. That's why some Linux distros aim to offer a Windows-like ...

In my last blog "Could Desktop Linux really be so slow?" I posted some interesting performance numbers of how a mainstream desktop Linux distribution like Linspire performed on a $100 PC. The ...

Microsoft will soon end official support for Windows XP, and OMG! Ubuntu! thinks that Lubuntu could be the perfect replacement. Lubuntu is a lightweight spin of Ubuntu that provides a more traditional ...

Posts from this topic Linux diary, chapter one: winging it. Linux diary, chapter one: winging it. is a senior reviews editor ...

When Microsoft ended support for Windows XP last year, most of us moved on to Windows 7 or 8, but not the nation of China. XP was still in wide use around the country and upgrading was an expensive ...

Everybody has a version of Windows that’s their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...