It was not too long ago that Linus Torvalds warned that the Linux Kernel was getting bloated and scary. Today there is more bad news for the Linux Kernel in the form of a report from Phoronix regarding the latest performance test of the Linux 2.6.35 Kernel.
Latest benchmarks from Phoronix show that the new 2.6.35 [...]

For years Linux has been a Geek’s operating system. While the community has worked hard at developing and promoting this alternative, others sat on the side lines and insisted that this project would never amount to anything. People would point to what they felt was the superiority of Windows or Apple products and say that [...]

I stumbled across a posting on the official Mandriva blog. This posting provides a response to all of the information that has been spread lately about Mandriva being up for sale and being aquired. Apparently some of the folks at Mandriva were not too thrilled with the way matters surrounding Mandriva have been presented. The issue of [...]

I recently got visualizations back on my Linux system by way of XMMS. I cannot resist sharing a few screen shots. I am going to share a couple of nice effects for your audio visualizations. The first one doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination. Simply maximize your visualization to full screen and then flip [...]

Amarok no longer supports visualizations. There is a way to get your visualizations back in Linux. The solution involves installing xmms. XMMS was once a very popular media player for Linux. I have been able to install it along with audio visualizations in Mandriva 2010.
If you miss having audio visualizations here is what you can [...]

It has finally happened Android sales have surpassed the iphone. The droid phones do have a few advantages over the iphone’s like the ability to multitask. If you are going to pay for a more advanced phone then you may want to be able to do more than one thing at a time.
Droid is built [...]

My first experience with Linux was with Mandriva. And I continue to use it. Perhaps I prefer Mandriva because I am accustomed to it and so I know how to work around a lot of the issues that pop up with it. So for me I get the most out of my system using Mandriva. [...]

I can remember when there were some awesome media players for Linux. The programs were so stable and had the best visualizations. There are still some decent programs but none as good as they used to be. Not too long ago I could run my visualizations in full screen mode on the compiz cube which [...]

I can remember when many opponents of Linux would claim that open source technology is not business friendly that the opportunities to profit are too limited. There are few people saying that these days even amongst the opponents. Many companies have profited from building services around Linux and many companies have risen through building products [...]

Why is it that most people still have not heard of Linux?
Could it be that one of things that drives many people toward Linux, the fact that it is free as in free beer, is also an impediment to it’s adoption? While the purpose of open source is to be free as in freedom as [...]