Linux Mandrake 7.2 offers the most advanced user interface design of all the distributions here and impressed us not only with its outstanding installer, but also with the inclusion of the new KDE 2 as the ...

Corel Linux may not be ranked as highly as the likes of RedHat in the Linux World, but the reality is that it offers an excellent introduction to the OS for Windows users. This is largely ...

Windows ME (or Me or Millennium Edition, depending who you ask) marks a turning point for Microsoft, although not in any technological sense; as you might expect, Windows ME is little more than warmed-over Windows 98 ...

You know how it goes - you want to try Linux but you've heard horror stories from those who have had a go. A friend of a friend who once tried it tells you that he ...

For some time the stalwarts of the free software concept have been heralding Linux, (that's 'Lin' as in 'sin' and not 'li' as in 'tie') as the greatest challenge to Microsoft's domination of operating systems. Indeed, ...

You've probably heard a lot about Linux in the computer press recently. Often touted as a Microsoft-killer, Linux is a free, open source operating system, and much of the software that runs on it is also ...

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