We went out to see some family this weekend, and they were having some issues with their WinXP computer. I was thinking about taking a Linux Live CD, but ended up giving the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows a try. It is pretty slick. You have to have your own copy of the Windows XP install files

jeevesbond writes “The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux … as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux

An anonymous reader notes Ars Technica’s report from the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, … applications to run on Ubuntu and “potentially other conventional Linux distributions.” “Android uses the Linux kernel, but it isn’t really a Linux platform. It offers its own totally unique environment

vigmeister writes “From Techgeist, ‘Linux just got a major slap in the face today from Asus. One of the highlights of Linux going mainstream was the wildly popular Asus Eee PC preinstalled with a customized Linux distro geared towards web applications. While I personally never got

The Berkeley LUG has a neat aggregation of many different places where you can acquire a desktop, laptop, or even netbook with Linux pre-installed. The list starts with a link to Dell’s Linux offering, includes many independent vendors, and many … the last couple of years, Linux has come a long way in terms of hardware support, and these days

An anonymous reader writes “‘Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft

Elektroschock writes “Wine attempts to implement the Windows API layer on Linux. There are some limitations and an important one is the missing DIB engine, bug 421. Chris Howe comprehends

ruphus13 writes “Linux recently achieved 1% market share of the overall operating system market. But, does that statistic really mean anything useful? … . How Linux is used in various business settings answers an actual question — and the answer

Canada.com Microsoft confirms Windows 7 Starter Edition changes Yahoo! … limit “based on the feedback we’ve received from partners … Windows 7 Vs. Linux: OS Face-Off

Without a doubt today’s home PC is faster than ever, so much so that even the slowest brand new computer of today has more horsepower under its hood than all the computing power combined together that was used in running the Apollo Moon Mission! That said,