Almost exactly one year ago, I made the following suggestion in the wake of Dell's long-awaited decision to offer ready-configured GNU/Linux systems alongside the usual panoply of Windows systems: we ...

Puzzle GNU/Linux is a strange OS distribution that shows the value of open source ingenuity. This Linux distro is built around a hybrid desktop that is highly customizable.You might get the impression ...

For the better part of a decade, users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and IRIX have used Darren Reed's ipfilter software to firewall networks and protect individual systems from network-based ...

Intel’s Rapid Start technology is a system that allows recent Windows computers to resume from deep sleep in 6 seconds or less. Soon you may also be able to achieve the same thing on a PC running a ...

The GNU movement’s founder doesn’t like the idea of DRM on an open-source platform. Recently, Valve’s Gabe Newell claimed that gaming would help to bring Linux into the mainstream, and announced his ...

To this day, I can still remember the first time I logged into Linux and how it looked. It was Caldera Open Linux 1.0 with the Fvwm95 desktop. It was ugly (even at the time) and completely different ...

It's no doubt that one of the leaders for network equipment is Cisco Systems. Newer Cisco devices are starting to use what Cisco calls its "="" operating="" system"="">, which is a customized flavor ...