When you install the Ubuntu Netbook Edition in October, don’t look for Firefox on the desktop — it won’t be there. Chromium, Chrome’s open source cousin, is going to be taking its place. After years of desktop dominance on Linux, is Firefox losing its foothold or is this an anomaly?

An interesting topic for a change: is Linux binary portable? That is, can we take a binary file and be sure it’ll run in any other Linux system? What happens if we broaden that to any POSIX system, will it blend? Eh, I mean, will it run?

It just seems that through all this hype of Google’s much anticipated release of its Chrome OS, many look to it as Google’s replacement to all competing Operating System when the reality shows that this will not be the case. First of all, let us look at the audience this new OS is catering to: someone who pretty much uses the web for everything (i.e.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced the inclusion of the GNOME desktop environment in its XO-1.5 line of computers. The inclusion of GNOME allows for students to quickly move from a learning environment to a productivity environment quickly and easily.

Creating good user passwords is your first line of security for a Linux Server. This important task has several principles that you need to follow to create passwords. This article will demonstrate the five rules for creating good passwords.

RIP Linux is a Slackware-based Linux rescue distribution that can be installed onto a CD, USB and even a 1.44 MB floppy. You can use this distro for various types of maintenance and troubleshooting or it also can be used for everyday desktop activities such as web surfing, email, and playing music.

This video is a overview of Character creation in Icewind Dale using CodeWeavers CrossOver Games in Linux Mint 9, the game also plays extremely well in other Linux distributions and Mac OS X with CXGames 9.0