Linux

How To: Use a Dock in Ubuntu with AWN

by Mike Mansell November 4, 2010

One of the biggest features attributed to Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is the ease of which users are able to organize their icons – for applications that are running and idle – in a single dock that is minimalistic and organized in appearance. While many people know the dock as a major component [...]

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CrossOver Linux Review

by Mike Mansell November 2, 2010

For about four months now, I have been using the Ubuntu Linux operating system full-time on both my desktop and notebook computer. A few weeks into this experience, I wrote an article sharing some of my findings about the Windows to Linux migration process. One of the main concepts that I addressed in this article was [...]

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Ubuntu 10.10 Review: A Ten In My Book

by Mike Mansell October 10, 2010

I have always felt it necessary to admit when I make a mistake, and my first impressions of the Ubuntu 10.10 beta – the one where I stated that I was “not impressed” with the release – is definitely one of those situations. In this review, I had installed the beta version of the 10.10 [...]

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Ubuntu’s New Application Review Process

by Mike Mansell September 20, 2010

The idea behind software stores is by far not a new concept. After the high level of success that was seen with the iTunes App Store and its distribution system, companies like Google opted to follow similar routes in order to distribute applications and services. However, asides from traditional software repositories, we have yet to [...]

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First Impressions: Ubuntu 10.10

by Mike Mansell September 19, 2010

If you’re a Linux user like myself – or even a potential Linux user – chances are you’re eagerly awaiting the release of Ubuntu 10.10 (codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”). Being the latest in the Ubuntu legacy, 10.10 will follow the release of Ubuntu 10.04, which I reviewed a while back. Today I decided to give the [...]

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Linux + Webmin: The Perfect Server Combination

by Mike Mansell September 13, 2010

Back in March of this year, I did a tutorial on how to create a Windows-based home server. While I felt that this was an informative post at the time, I knew that there was one major weakness in it; it relied on Windows. Many businesses who operate large-scale servers opt to use (at least [...]

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How To: Move from Windows to Linux

by Mike Mansell July 15, 2010

Over the past three weeks, I have partaken in what is easily one of the most daunting computer-related feats that I’ve ever subjected myself to. What is this task that has taken up my time and patience for nearly a month? Well, you see, when I first started using computers as a small child, I [...]

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Review: Fedora 13 Beta

by Mike Mansell May 8, 2010

As you may already know, the pre-release (beta) version of the Fedora Linux distribution was released two days ago. This release comes just more than a week after Canonical released the 10.04 version of their wildly successful Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Because of this, I was curious to see what aspects of Fedora 13 would be [...]

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Review: Ubuntu 10.04

by Mike Mansell April 30, 2010

As many of you know, yesterday marked the release of the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed “Lucid Lynx”. As I covered in my previous pre-release article, this release is important because it is an LTS, or “Long Term Support” release, which means that the desktop version of the operating system will be supported [...]

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Linux Claims The First USB 3.0 Drivers

by Matt Hodges June 11, 2009

After what is said to have been a year-and-a-half of work, it appears that the first driver for USB 3.0 has been born. Was it created for Microsoft Windows? Nope. How about Mac OS X? Not quite. As it turns out, Intel’s Sarah Sharp has created the world’s first USB 3.0 driver; and it’s for [...]

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