All right, it's time to talk about Linux games, once again. In this article, I'm going to present a whole variety of Linux games, across a range of genres. I'm going to review several titles in detail, complete with screenshots and grades.

Our intrepid writer installs and tests Ubuntu Linux within both VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X. Can you really run both Linux and Mac OS X simultaneously and achieve nirvana?

2008 is almost at its end and there’s one product/technology which has been so exceedingly helpful to me the past six months, that i thought i’d spend some time evangelizing it and giving it the completely unofficial title “My Technology Pick of the Year 2008″.

The first pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available. This alpha concentrates on updating to the major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2 Beta 2, GNOME 2.25.2, Xfce 4.6 Beta 2, X.org server 1.5, and kernel 2.6.28 rc8. It is also the first distribution to introduce the major new Tcl/Tk release, 8.6.

We all keep talking about how Linux is more secure than Windows, how it provides the same desktop experience for no cost, how it can be run on very old machines, how Tux bombards XP's green pasture blah blah blah...but if people are to use Linux, they should also get the same “tiny tweaks” that they enjoy in Windows / Mac.

Lots of people need an email client because they like to have their emails on their computer. So what they need is an email client that is nice looking, easy to use and works great.

The Exaile media player has been attracting fans over the past couple of years. I asked the project’s founder, Adam Olsen, about the project and their use of Launchpad.

Have you ever wondered on what operating system Java works the best? While by no means is it a conclusive multi-platform comparison, for this article we ran a number of Java benchmarks on both Windows Vista Premium and Ubuntu Linux to see how the Java Virtual Machine performance differs.