So there are a few new games over at Tux Games. Northland is from the Runesoft and X2: The Threat was published by Linux Game Publishing.
And we’re finally getting them in to review over at PCBurn! Normally I don’t bother with the Linux releases because they’re so delayed from their Windows brethren.
Breaking that […]

I’m starting to get back into the swing of writing with a bit of the op-ed on Linux.  This piece goes into why Freespire doesn’t pose a moral dillema and why no one really seems to care one way or the other.
PCBurn - PCBurn Editorial: Are Freespires Proprietary Packages a Problem?

Lester apparently is a little slow on the (er…) draw. LinuxWorld expo, run by sys-con Media, has always had a website hosted on Windows. That’s what you get when you’re running all your stuff centrally for a bunch of tradeshows. Whatever the others sites run on.
He seems to be having a lot […]

So Xgl and Compiz didn’t really have me chomping at the bit with anticipation when they were being talked up by the coders and GUI wonks earlier in the year.  It’s just another GUI layer, only faster, right?
Not exactly.  While it is another layer of GUI effects, it’s a really sexy layer of GUI effects.  […]

Only not as much as I had hoped.  Still, I’ll get the laptop working at some point for some live coverage of.. er.. something.  Otherwise we’ll have to stick to the classic post-happenings write-ups so popular in the pulpier media (a point of heated debate in their own right over the past few days).
So I’ll […]

Linux World Boston is coming up next week and I’m going to have some live blogging from the Expo floor and possibly some of the keynote addresses.
PCBurn will be running interviews and photos from the show floor in addition to the running commentary on here. So look forward to lots of content from the […]

Apparently we’re supposed to take a pundits word that Windows 2000 was far less reliable than Windows XP and that Linux is now mature enough for the desktop market.  Or maybe not.  The article actually seems to double back on itself and tries to throw doubt on Linux’s preparedness to work in the Enterprise market.  […]