Another year has just started and with it comes a clutch of new Linux distro releases, among them the somewhat predictably named Mandriva Linux 2009. As with previous versions, the 2009 implementation of Mandriva Linux is ...

As part of a survival toolkit, Damn Small Linux could be something of a saviour. Earlier this year, this writer used a previous release of the distribution to excise a couple of gigabytes of files from ...

Small business versions of Windows Server have been around for quite a while now with each implementation following much the same pattern. All have been based on a standard edition of Windows Server together with a ...

Amidst a deluge of recent Linux updates, you could be forgiven for overlooking the release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. The latest in a long line of Mandriva distros, this features the usual upgrades to the ...

Like Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 products, XenServer (recently acquired by Citrix) lets you run multiple virtual machines, simultaneously, on the same host system. Like Microsoft and some VMware products, it can also ...

The latest release of the openSUSE Linux distro has a lot to offer anyone looking to get to grips with the open source OS. It's quicker and slicker than previous releases, with numerous performance and interface ...

Leopard is Apple's much talked-about new version of OS X. It takes over from Tiger and includes some novel twists in the way the operating system works. You'll need a reasonably up-to-date Mac to run Leopard, ...

Very much the poster child for Linux accessibility, Ubuntu has - in just a few years - been identified broadly as a strong starting point for those looking to try the open source operating system for ...

There's a steadfast simplicity that sits at the heart of PCLinuxOS. It's certainly served the product well, given that it's one of the most popular Linux distributions around, and one that has been increasing in popularity ...

A speedily-evolving Linux distribution - with updates arriving regularly - and one that used to be known as RR4 Linux, Sabayon Linux is quickly garnering strong word-of-mouth support among the open source community, and with good ...

Previously know as "Feisty Fawn", the latest release of Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu 7.04, is of interest for two reasons: a handful of useful new features, plus it's been chosen by Dell for its first foray into ...

Red Hat would like you to believe it significant that its latest enterprise platform - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - was released on Albert Einstein's birthday. That isn't significant, but it is a ...

For the past year or so, Ubuntu and its derivatives have been regarded as a good entry point for those looking to dabble with a Linux distribution. Granted, the world of Linux changes at a pace ...

After five years of development and US$6 billion of investment, Microsoft has finally unveiled Windows Vista. The new Operating System has been written afresh from the ground up to get rid of the stack of legacy ...

The Fedora Project is a Linux spin-off from Red Hat, and has a much more aggressive release cycle than its parent, coming out twice or three times in a year with more cutting edge software than ...

Like buses, you can wait ages for a new Linux distribution to come along only for several to arrive together. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is the first of an expected queue of new enterprise Linux packages ...

Is it just me, or would everyone prefer the latest version of Ubuntu Linux to be known by its development name, Dapper Drake? Maybe not, but anyway, the official name is now Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The ...

To fully understand what Fedora Core is all about you have to know a little about its history, starting with the fact that it was originally called Red Hat Linux. It was re-named when Red Hat ...

An editorial on this site predicted that in order for the Linux operating system to become truly useful to people like the editor, it would inevitably have to become bloated. That prediction, while it may still ...

If you don't know what the word Ubuntu means, then hard luck - you'll have to wait until the end of this review to find out (no peeking now!), because this review concentrates on what Ubuntu ...