As I review one Linux distribution or another, I find myself uttering phrases like “This is pretty good! Almost makes me want to switch my system to this,” over and over again. So many distributions ...

People don’t like change. One of the things that some people get hung up on is the look and feel of the desktop. More precisely, some Windows users who look at Ubuntu Linux get hung up on how it doesn ...

Recently, an article crossed my path that made me smile. There’s not much in tech these days that does that, so I took a moment to savor this rare sensation. The piece by Jack Wallen on ZDNet pitched ...

I've got an older computer doing some fileserving (samba)/ip masq/intranet stuff (apache), and (you can find the reason for me doing this here I'd like to make this machine "look" like a computer ...

Ubuntu used to be the easiest recommendation for a new Linux user, but recent bad decisions have caused things to shift in ...

OpenSUSE is a powerful operating system, but I still haven't recommended it to new Linux users. Why? It's too powerful, and it doesn't include essential day-to-day software. That's a shame, because ...