In my last post about everyone’s preferred music player, I mentioned that I was dying to try out the Linux player Amarok because I’d heard great things about. There’s just one problem: I’m a Windows user.
Luckily, the guys at Amarok have decided to give the Windows users a taste of what this music player is [...]

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Who would have thought that Ubuntu would become one of the most popular, or the most popular, Linux distribution in a matter of years ? Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron is out and can be downloaded from the official Ubuntu website. Am I the only one thinking that this naming convention is utterly stupid and [...]

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One aspect of installing Linux has always been a major hindrance for inexperienced users. The fact that you had to partition your hard drives in order to install Linux on your computer. While the procedure itself has become easier it was always mandatory to partition your hard drive. The good news is that this is [...]

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Taking security out of the hands of the average user is a good way of increasing system security. That’s my opinion on the matter, the greatest security risk is most of the time the human sitting in front of the computer. The Yoggie Pico is a security device with 13 security applications in USB format that runs Linux and handles all network traffic of the computer.

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I’m currently still using my old Microsoft Xbox as my media center and it’s working fine so far but I do have thoughts about the future. The Xbox will not last forever and the new Xbox 360 cannot be modified to do the same yet. One alternative that I investigated was building a computer for this purpose and I’m almost sure that I would use the Geexbox Linux distribution as the operating system.

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