Linux, once viewed as an operating system only computer geeks could appreciate, is today much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master almost as ...

Linux is only marginally more difficult for users to learn compared with Windows XP, according to a study carried out by German usability testing agency. The tests, which compared SuSE Linux 8.2 ...

When “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” becomes a Linux desktop environment.

Users are now able to run most of the applications in Office XP on Linux, following the release of commercial software that allows the package to run on the open-source operating system. CodeWeavers' ...

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 ...

Hmmm...<P>Well, I want to do it. I will have an 80GB HD, and a 15.3GB HD. XP will go on the first 20GB of the big one, the rest of it will be multimedia storage, and ...

I have the question about mounting windows partitin so all my data would be accessible from Linux.<P> I am curently runing RedHat Linux 7.2 .<BR> I tried traditional mounting (i.e. I typed the command ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ease yourself into Linux with a Windows-like desktop.

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