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Editorials March 13, 2008

Why Walmart isn’t the place for Linux

A lot has been said this week about Walmart pulling the Everex gPC and Cloudbook from their stores. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a interesting article on desktoplinux.com regarding his views. What it boils down to is the people who typically shop at WalMart are probably not even capable of determining what OS their computer is [...]

Ubuntu has Brainstorm

Now alot of people will ask, what’s so different about Linux that makes it better then Windows? Well, alot of things really, but I think the best thing is the community. Ubuntu listens to the community and it’s even listening more now that Ubuntu has setup the Ubuntu Brainstorm website. Brainstorm is where Ubuntu users [...]

Zareason UltraLapSR Unboxing

I received the UltraLapSR today and here’s the unboxing! It took a while to get here, but that’s because Zareason does the right thing and thinks of the customer first! Walk with me as I unbox this beauty! Building Linux hardware so you don’t have to. I like that!

VIA Artigo Review

We’ve all seen the mini PCs like Lenovo’s Thinkcenter Desktops and Dell’s small desktops. We’ve also seen other PCs about the size of a external CD rom. Now, we have one that’s about half that size. VIA had brought out the Artigo Builders Kit. The motherboard on the Artigo is about the size of a [...]

A Open Source Router…With more power! The LX800-40 Review

Now, Open Source software has been running on routers for quite sometime, however most routers like the Linksys WRT54GL have limited resources. They have limited ram, limited CPU and limited on board storage. This limits greatly what can be done with the router software wise. So, eventually, you run up against a wall with what [...]

The Recon 400X Review

Have you ever dropped a PDA or cellphone and had the screen crack? Have you had it up to here with Windows Mobile’s quirks? Well maybe, just maybe, this PDA is for you. What PDA can withstand drops and use in the rain? What PDA doesn’t run Windows Mobile or Palm OS anymore?? The Recon [...]

ASUS Eee PC 8GB Unboxing

Somehow word of the ASUS Eee PC flew under my radar. I had no clue as to its existence until the first week of November (two weeks after the US launch) when a colleague at work informed me of this low cost ultra compact portable computer. After hearing the brief details and that the computer [...]