Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

Apple puts CD-RW drives and combo drives on most of its newer Mac models except for the low-end iBook, but that still leaves hundreds of thousands of older Mac models out there without the ability to ...