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Vidalia is a cross-platform GUI for the Tor network, which makes it very easy to anonymize your Mac’s TCP activity. The Tor project is a volunteer network designed to foil traffic analysis and thus allow you to cover your tracks online. Basically it bounces your network requests across a number of Tor computers (and back [...]
Running Linux on video game consoles is old hat. Not only can you cram various Linux distros onto an original Xbox or a Sony PS3, but they can even play Doom. You know, and other video games too.
But the Nintendo Wii has been a bit tougher to crack than hacker-friendly hardware like the PS3, [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is marching closer to its scheduled April launch. Canonical has released the 5th Alpha of the next generation of the popular Linux distribution. Among other things, Alpha 5 comes with a new installation option: Users can either run and install Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 using a LiveCD, or they can use [...]
After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see here), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing with OfficeBench showed an ~10% performance boost vs. the same configuration running under Windows XP w/Service Pack 2.Since SP3 was supposed [...]
There’s been a lot of talk this week about Ubuntu 7.10, which was released today. It has improved hardware and driver support, 3D Desktop graphics, and integrated desktop search. But Ubuntu’s main branch isn’t the only OS getting an update this week. Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu and other Ubuntu-related projects are also getting a facelift.
Kubuntu, [...]
Wired’s got a good, non-geek-friendly review of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, Gutsy Gibbon, which ships today. Ubuntu is the Linux for the rest of us, an operating system packaged for maximum enjoyment with minimum tweaking under the hood. For those of you that have been full-time Ubuntu users, I’m sure you could not [...]
If you’re itching to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but aren’t planning to be anywhere near Redmond on October 27th, all may not be lost. Some friendly hackers have posted a registry setting that will reportedly allow you to download Vista SP1 through Windows Update.
We’d like to point out a couple of things here, [...]
So you want your Linux and your proprietary software too? Not a problem. Linspire 6.0 was released today. The software formerly known as Lindows is built on the open-source Linux kernel, but it includes support for proprietary components including MP3, Real, Java, Flash, ATI, and nVidia software, codecs and drivers. Linspire is based on Ubuntu [...]
Now that YouTube has set the tone for how short video clips should operate on the Internet, the race is on to define what the future of broadcasting might look like. The makers of Miro, a free, open-source Mac (and Windows and *nix… 
video player that’s near release-candidate readiness, suggest that it looks a lot [...]
Popular Science notes that manufacturers in China duplicate many well-know products. This includes the Apple iPhone, imitations of which are rolling off the assembly line already. That might actually be a good thing for some users, who might enjoy the user experience of China’s own miniOne.
From the Article: “It ran popular mobile software that the [...]
Got a Linux box in the house and want just a few applications from over there (Linux) to run over here (Windows)? This may just be the trick.
The X windows system - the base which allows graphical applications to run in Linux - has always had the ability for an application to run on one [...]
The high priests of free software have congregated at Google Inc. headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft. Leading names of Linux, the world’s biggest grassroots software phenomenon, are spending three days to Friday debating whether an increasingly commercial open source community should fight [...]
According to a new IDC study, the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow 26% annually for the next four years, hitting a total market worth of US$5.8 billion in 2011. IDC found that the open source market is in a significant stage of growth, as [...]
F*** Windows, and f*** the Mac, too. Maximum PC shows you how to make the jump to Linux from start to finish, and shows you how to stay there once you’ve abandoned all those other PC and Mac sheep to go your own open-source way.
Let’s all get the hell out of these mainstream operating systems [...]
Rumblings and rumors surrounding pre-installed Ubuntu on Dell machines have been flying over the last few days, and it looks like the rumors are true. According to Desktop-Linux, Dell will begin shipping systems with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, and - finally - without Windows (or the cost of a Windows license).
Ubuntu senior support engineer Fabian Rodriguez [...]
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