If you’ve worked in Windows long enough, you have come across the .chm file format. This format is nothing more than a compressed html directory with an included index for easy viewing. Problem is, you can’t view these files in Linux without the help of another tool. And sometimes you want to be able view these files in another format.

The Dread Moon remix of Ubuntu 9.04 is designed to provide a turn key game and multimedia development platform by providing pre-installed, compatible versions of numerous software libraries.

I had decided that the first Linux I'd try on the Aspire One is OpenSUSE. I've had good luck with commercial SUSE Linux in the past, and I've been wanting to evaluate the OpenSUSE version. And they give nicely detailed instructions for the Aspire One.

By now you would know that the next Fedora release, Fedora 13, will be named "Goddard", after the famous Rocket scientist Robert H Goddard. After deciding on the name, fedora contributors have started working on the designs, themes and other artwork for the next release.

A closer look at Walter Bender's recent public talk and more disenchanting news about the activities of Bill Gates

Over the last few days Docky has gained some new features and additions. Notably a 3-D mode and Extensions support. In this post we'll be taking a peek at Dockys' "new" extensions.

Clouds continue to dominate my life, as they do (or will) many of yours. While major corporations try to convince us to rent space or resources on their clouds, it doesn't have to be expensive, and some services like Ubuntu One, offer some amount of free cloud storage. But public institutions can get in on the act as well, and seed their own clouds.

A great idea and applied well in time before Google finishes its Chrome operating system It just shows what a few people can achieve with open source software tools if they put their minds to it...