PCLinuxOS is awesome. Especially I like the “2008 MiniMe” edition, which comes as a bare-bone installable live CD, and contains only the KDE desktop essentials. This means that you will have to install all the desired applications on top of it, in order to make it a usable desktop system. In other words, the approach [...]
The neat thing about modern mobile phones is that you can install additional applications on them. This article introduces three excellent mobile phone applications that have made my life a lot easier, and my cutting edge Nokia phone (currently E71) even better. In fact these have proven to be real life savers, are made by [...]
Oh boy, this week the ‘quality’ of the biggest Linux distributions almost depressed me. Here are a couple fine examples of issues that one will never experience in the commercial software world. You see, after more than one and a half years of testing distributions, except for the times I was happily using PCLOS 2008, [...]
In case you have read our articles, you know that I’ve been doing plenty of distro hopping recently. The freedom of choice is one thing that Linux fans often boast about – you can choose in between hundreds of Linux distributions, a number of desktop environments and so on. Initially this freedom seems appealing [...]
The Apple iPhone 3G has finally arrived to the global market. It has been very interesting to read about the consumer reactions and initial comments regarding this device. After all the European / International market has used to advanced 3G smartphone concepts, and in that sense is much more demanding than the U.S. consumers on [...]
The six month update cycles of major Linux distributions guarantees that there will be plenty of fresh releases for every spring and fall. At the end of 2007 we ranked the best distributions of the year, but as most distros have been refreshed since it is time to have another look at the current Linux [...]
One great thing about Linux is the furious 6 month development cycle that most major distributions use. That’s right, no matter if you use Ubuntu, Mandriva or Fedora you will get a fresh bleeding edge version of the operating system twice a year. The fresh releases have loads of bugs on the release date, then [...]
While the hype around PlayStation 3 is considerably building up, due to improved games selection and price cuts, one of the potential killer features of the console has not received too much media attention. Future will show if I am correct, but Sony’s strategic decision to allow Linux installation on the console may turn out [...]
Viruses have not made the headline recently. While the Internet is the main medium for the viruses to spread, the network enables the antidote to spread rapidly as well. Anti-virus software can update their virus definitions online, which has made large scale computer virus epidemics rather rare these days. Many new PCs feature an anti-virus [...]
Stability is very often used as a marketing factor for Linux, or considered as something that gives Linux some edge over Microsoft Windows systems. As usual in Linux vs. Windows debates, many overstatements are made, and some people seem to think that Windows does nothing but crashes and prints out blue screened error messages. In [...]
