Recently I decided to give the Chrome beta 5 a try in Mandriva. I like Chrome because of the html 5 support for youtube videos in that format. When I got Chrome installed I clicked on the icon watched it bounce around for a while and then nothing happened. I ran the command google-chrome in [...]

The latest Opera web browser has finally been released for Linux. This review of Opera is a review of the Linux version of Opera and is a bit of a mixed review. There are some things that I like about the new browser and a couple of thing I do not like about it.
The Good
Opera [...]

A company called ncomputing has designed a system on chip that can turn any tv set, monitor or as their page words it any device into a pc. The product has not yet been released but the company is planning on selling these devices for only 20 dollars. Linux is supported and so is Windows. [...]

I have had a lot of fun playing with compiz fusion in Linux. I really like the desktop cube feature especially with the transparency settings in place to where you can see all sides of your desktop cube. Unfortunately there is a problem and that is with the desktop icons. When you make your desktop [...]

The HP Deskjet D2680 is very easy to install in Linux. First I installed hplip and then I installed hplip-gui. After that it was as simple as plugging the printer in and then opening the HP device manager. The HP Device Manager can be found in Mandriva 2010 in the System Tools section of [...]

I just wanted to share this wallpaper that I designed using the Gimp. I am really enjoying learning how to design graphics on the computer. I would like to learn how to paint someday. But for now this will have to do.
Install and learn how to use the Gimp
For those of you who would like [...]

Companies that choose proprietary software development over open source often find themselves in the position of discovering really serious problems when it is too late, the item has already been released to the public and not just as a beta and serious damage has been done to a companies record. Most Linux users would likely [...]

Recently we aquired a Sony Cybershot n50 I hooked this camera up to my Linux system and it picked it right up as Linux does with many Digital Camera’s and the world was good. Then one evening I get home from a long night at work and my newly converted from Windows wife is asking [...]

While Microsoft and Linux Zealots duke it out over the whole every operating system is vulnerable and Linux has problems too and so forth and so on and while flame wars rage across the internet, the people at Microsoft are looking at a possible solution to the security flaws in their operating system. It seems [...]