One of the most popular Linux distrubtions, Linux Mint's latest edition was bound to attract plenty of interest. And rightly so, too. We downloaded the 700MB Live CD ISO file: once burnt to a disc, this ...

One of the most popular distributions of Linux, a position it's held for many years, Mandriva is a distribution that straddles the needs of both home and business users surprisingly well. And while on the one ...

Ubuntu 9.10 offers the kind of efficient operating system that should, in theory, give Microsoft a run for its money with Windows 7. That won't happen, of course, but given the relative ease of use of ...

As it turns out, pretty much everyone was right. Windows 7 is the operating system that Vista should have been. It is the OS that basically fixes Vista, adds some new functions and works a lot ...

Despite the fact that it looks almost exactly like its predecessor Leopard, there's plenty in Snow Leopard to make Mac users sit up and take notice. From the upgrade price of just £25 (peanuts, and which ...

Debian GNU/Linux (Debian for short) tends not to attract the same attention as more flashy distros such as Ubuntu, even though the popular Ubuntu package is, in fact, Debian based. Moreover, Debian developers like to take ...

It's been a long time coming, but the press that Microsoft received for the public beta version of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system was in stark contrast to much of the criticism that Vista became ...

One of the more popular Linux distributions, but not one that's offering much of a threat to Ubuntu in terms of popularity, Simply MEPIS nonetheless has much to commend it. It's the community version of the ...

The process of getting hold of Knoppix Linux isn't quite as hand-holding as you might expect from your average Ubuntu distribution, but it's certainly got a few tricks of its own up its sleeve. For once ...

Perhaps it's a changing of the tide within the walls of Microsoft, but the decision to allow as many people as demand dictates to download and try a free beta of its next operating system has ...

A powerful Linux distribution and a strong candidate for being a day-to-day operating system of choice, OpenSUSE 11 is a smart evolution of an already popular distro. And it drips with professionalism, with a confident look ...

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 ...