If you are interested in a new laptop pre-loaded with Linux or shipped with a bare drive for self-install read on. About a month ago, April 22nd 2011, I quietly posted a “press release” about the laptop line we are using for Linux, FreeBSD and FreeDOS installations. Since we were …
Late in 2010 one of our charitable organization clients, a local church, came to these decisions: 1) The aging XP Professional systems in their office needed to be replaced with new systems. 2) The existing XP Professional systems that were not so old needed to be upgraded to newer operating …
Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they …
Is Ubuntu actually good or merely popular? “It is either so bleeding edge it is a miracle the CD doesn’t have stigmata, or it is really old packages that are never updated,” blogger hairyfeet asserted. “Ubuntu has done more for Linux acceptance than any other distribution,” countered blogger Martin Espinoza. …