Joomla is a very easy-to-use content management system. There’s also plenty of information on the internet about all aspects of its use. Yet this book is still very welcome, at least for those who’d like to know more about Joomla 1.5 and 1.6…

When we reviewed the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 not long ago, we had one critical complaint: while the system looked sleek, it ran too slow for even rudimentary tasks. That main complaint has been partially solved with the successor - the IdeaCentre Q110.

Details: Price £38.50 Author Tim Riley & Adam Goucher Publisher O’Reilly ISBN 978-0596159818 Contrary to popular belief, open source software isn’t written by a couple of disorganised hippies who live in San Jose in California. Many hundreds of thousands of people sit around using the ...

This Android-powered netbook – which runs a Linux core – boots and runs faster than any Windows alternative…

The Acer AspireRevo nettop is a new hybrid of an old concept. Thin computing is older than the hills, an idea Sun tried ages ago. Read on to see how the Revo fared in testing…

In the preface, the author explains that his desire to write the book came from discovering a lack of published literature on the subject…

Norton Ghost and its open source alternative Partition Image have been the software to go to for cloning hard drives for some time now. Today we're look at a further alternative that the open source world has to offer – Clonezilla…

Virtualisation has become a big industry. Large numbers of desktop machines and servers are being run in this way. So it’s not surprising that there is a high demand for more information for the end user about virtualisation and what can be done with it…

To some people the idea of parsing text data in GNU/Linux or UNIX might not sound like a worthwhile way of doing things. However, this is the kind of administrational task that a lot of system administrators and programmers perform every day of the week. Flex and Bison have proven ...

This small netbook has options galore - including an HDMI port and built-in 3G - but you’ll have to sign up to a contract for a more attractive price. John Brandon takes the Nokia Booklet 3G for a test drive…