Linux Hardware & Software Reviews

The system I tested was powerful. It has a 3.06GHz processor (with Hyper Threading support), 1 Gigabyte of RAM, and an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 with 64Mb VGA ram.

The screen is a 15" SXGA…

I am a recovering distribution junkie. I would obsessively spend my time at Distrowatch, looking for something new. There were plenty of exciting releases. After a while, the excitement would wear…

With the price of IDE hard drives being dirt cheap now a days it is becoming more realistic to own supplementary drives for multiple operating systems, backups, redundancy, additional storage,…

As far as I am aware, Savage is the first title to attempt an amalgamation of two popular existing genres - Real Time Strategy & First Person Shooter. The question to pose is this: Savage -…

A long time ago, when I first heard about Sharp releasing the Linux based Zaurus 5500 PDA, my interest was peaked. I was just dying to see what it could do.

Alas, I never had a chance to…

For all you folks that sat for hours when you first stumbled across the joy that is "fortune", or for the ones of you that get a small thrill from announcing to your friend "that's the problem,…

How many of you boast more than one PC on your home network but are restricted to switching one monitor between machines?

If you’re anything like me, you dread crawling behind a nest of…

Xandros Desktop is a beautifully crafted operating system by a staff of meticulous and talented human beings. Had I not experienced one major roadblock during my initial installation, I would…

Having been introduced to a wide variety of hubs and had my fair share of networking fiasco's I was looking forward to reviewing this switch. After all, it runs at 100Mbit (auto-sensing for 10Mbit…

One day I was surfing Dell's website to help a friend purchase a new computer and I stumbled across this baby. I know that I did not need a new computer. I had just built myself an Athlon 1700+ XP…