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, ...

Last month, Canonical launched Ubuntu 8.10 with significant new features and performance upgrades over previous versions. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable ...

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro out there, but users coming from Windows may find it repulsive and decide to switch ...

I run Windows Vista on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. My laptop has 2 GB RAM and the ATI X1400 video card. I can't wipe Vista off the laptop as I need certain Windows administrative tools that are exclusive ...

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 ...