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…

Due for release in late 2010, Google recently set loose a beta version of its new Chrome operating system. Already there is much interest from a large crowd of international developers. Much is promised from Google, which feels sure that it has the right marketing strategy for its network-based operating ...

Linux System Administration Recipes is an easy-to-understand problem-solving book by an experienced system administrator, says Richard Ibbotson...

Like most netbooks that use an Intel Atom processor, the Toshiba Mini NB205works well as an internet device, but not a great deal more…

Why would we want to cover a monitor that costs more than most PCs we review? Because it’s an EIZO Foris, the mother of all monitor brands...

A netbook is only as powerful as the software you install on it. If you install the right operating system and focus your attention on web apps and not software you install on the hard drive, most models reveal their true nature as thin clients that have internal storage for ...