by John Brandon
Like most netbooks that use an Intel Atom processor, the Toshiba Mini NB205works well as an internet device, but not a great deal more…
by Sukrit Dhandhania
Getting the performance-monitoring data for a server can be invaluable for a person handling a production environment. There are a number of ways to collect this information. Once you collect this data it can be quite a challenge to interpret it accurately and can be even more difficult to make ...
by Russell Barnes
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...
by John Brandon
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 ...
Posted by RussellBarnes
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer, and head of the Linux Drivers Project. He is a Novell Fellow, and works on the SUSE distribution for that company. We talked to him about his work past, present and future on the Linux kernel...
by Richard Ibbotson
A simple cross-platform web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine, which has a small memory footprint, but is still undergoing heavy development…
by Richard Ibbotson
There are some technical publications which are just like some novels in that you either don't want to put them down or you don't want to stop reading them. When O'Reilly first published their GNU/Linux series of books Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux were quickly seen to be ...
by John Brandon
A low-cost nettop PC designed primarily for accessing the Internet, the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 is an ideal computer for knowledge workers and end-user quality assurance testing.
by Richard Ibbotson
Mandriva, previously known as Mandrake, was always an interesting mainline GNU/Linux distribution to use, providing some superb server or desktop software. As far as quality is concerned, nothing much has changed since the Nineties, but as far as sophistication of the desktop is concerned, things have come a long way ...
by Richard Ibbotson
Written by Keir Thomas, a former editor of Linux User & Developer magazine, this is a very handy guide for beginners. If you are new to GNU/Linux, you are most likely using Ubuntu Linux for your desktop.
