There's an enormous difference between your average PC consumer and the hardcore computer enthusiast. One of the key differences is how much time someone is willing to expend on a system.

Hi,
Just to tell potential French Dell/Ubuntu buyers. DON'T DO IT !

Over time, a filesystem accumulates a lot of useless items. FSlint is a nifty little tool that helps you clean your filesystem by pointing out junk in the form of empty directories, corrupt symlinks, files with bad names, duplicate and temp files, and more.

European courts recently discovered that the Windows OS effectively doubled the purchase price of a laptop. Here's further proof!

So I finally made my choice of new distros. I opted for gentoo. I actually tried archlinux first but it annoyed me insanely within ten minutes (don’t ask me why, it was a taste thing). See this post for more on why I changed.

I get this question often from many: How does one use a Virtual Private Network in Linux?

Companies selecting a VoIP solution must choose from a dizzying array of options, including whether a hosted, hybrid-hosted or premise-based telephony system will work better for them, and whether the benefits of open source outweigh the potential risks.

"...The new draft defines a binding CSS property and :bound-element pseudo-class. The other features are now covered by the XBL draft which is being developed by the W3C Web Application Formats Working Group..."