Last week I wrote about the poor performance of Windows Vista under the VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC environments. I noted that Vista was slower than it should be under virtualization, ...

Last month, Canonical launched Ubuntu 8.10 with significant new features and performance upgrades over previous versions. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable ...

A silly question, I know, but I just read Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? and I was dumbfounded. Here's the premise: The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to ...

I mentioned last week that I was planning to attend the Linspire-sponsored Linux Desktop Summit where the discussion would include reasons the folks who build PCs don’t want to do Linux. Indeed, some ...

I just installed the latest RC last night, on my test box which already had Win2k3 and Ubuntu coexisting peacefully on it, I know I need to reinstall grub now at the least. So make sure you're clear ...