I mentioned last week that I was planning to attend the Linspire-sponsored Linux Desktop Summit where the discussion would include reasons the folks who build PCs don’t want to do Linux. Indeed, some ...

It's not Windows vs. Linux, it's Windows and Linux.

Last week I wrote about the poor performance of Windows Vista under the VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC environments. I noted that Vista was slower than it should be under virtualization, ...

All of those distros and all that command-line scripting for basic tasks have made those who are less than eager to dedicate hours to fine-tuning a PC keep far away from Linux. The Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy ...

Sometimes Linux tools are just better.