Action RTS game Heroes of Newerth goes free-to-play
By: Tina Chubb | Posted: July 29, 2011Filed under: Gaming, Mac Games, PC Games
If you haven’t quite got around to playing the hugely popular Heroes of Newerth – commonly known as HoN – game yet, then I think we have some news that might persuade you to give it a try. We’ve recently…
Ekoore announces 3 new tablet PCs: Pascal, Python and Perl
By: Tina Chubb | Posted: July 1, 2011Filed under: Computers, Portable Computers & Tablets
More and more tablet PCs are being released onto the market these days, giving customers a much wider choice of devices to go for. Italian manufacturer Ekoore has just added to the list of new devices, with the announcement of…
Ubuntu 11.04: How To Enable the Unity Desktop Interface
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: May 9, 2011Filed under: Computers, Software
Lots of people are still unsure as to whether the Unity user interface which was rolled out with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is an improvement when compared to Gnome, one thing which we recently realised upon installation of the latest…
Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Interface: Pros and Cons
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: May 4, 2011Filed under: Computers, Software
Ubuntu 11.04 is now available for download, but the jury is still out on what users think of the Natty Unity interface. Here we will look at the pros and cons for the new desktop interface. During its development Unity…
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat: Are You Experiencing Problems?
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: October 11, 2010Filed under: Computers, Software
Yesterday Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released, now that people have had time to download and install this version of Linux we thought we would get some feedback from our readers to see if they were impressed with this version,…
Competition from Linux to Microsoft’s Windows client business
By: Jamie Pert | Posted: August 5, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
Following all of the recent news of the upcoming Linux based Google Chrome OS, Microsoft has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as potential competitors to its Windows client business. This the first time Microsoft has named Linux distributions…
Moblin version of Linpus Linux Lite OS at Computex
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: May 28, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
With the release of the Linux Foundation’s Moblin 2.0 Beta, a number of people have missed the fact that the software is targeted more at Linux distributors and not at end-users. However, you would not think so when you take…
New Ubuntu Linux Server 9.04 download and 9.10 release date
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: April 7, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
Come April 30 there will be a new Ubuntu Linux Server download at v9.04, and this version will include the ability to migrate KVM-based virtual machines
Windows 7 The Linux killer and Ubuntu Going Mainstream
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: January 12, 2009Filed under: Computers, Software
Last month hundreds of controversial software developers met at Mountain View, Calif (Google headquarters), this group of people are very capable of overthrowing the likes of Windows. Everyone at this meeting was talking about billionaire Mark Shuttleworth and something called…
Fedora 10 Now Live: So how is the Linux-based OS?
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: November 27, 2008Filed under: Computers
Fedora 10 is now live thanks to Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project, this is the all new version of the free Linux-based operating system which has many improvements within networking, virtualization management, security and even boot time.
ARM Netbook: Custom Ubuntu Linux and ARMv7 chips
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: November 13, 2008Filed under: Computers, Laptops
ARM has announced that they are to team up with Canonical, and will build new processors for Ubuntu Desktop operating system, which use the ARMv7 architecture. The netbooks in question are the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems.
Download Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Intrepid Ibex today
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: October 30, 2008Filed under: Computers, Software
Today is October 30, and that means that you are now able to download Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Intrepid Ibex. This is the latest version of the ever popular operating system; there are a number of new features that helps to…
Linux and Gmail Drove Microsoft to Windows Azure: IBM already there
By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: October 28, 2008Filed under: Computers, Software
We have said in previous articles that Microsoft and other brands cannot keep selling software for profit when there are alternatives for free thanks to open source in some cases. It seems that Microsoft are now taking action against the…
New Ubuntu Linux v8.10 for desktops and servers
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: October 27, 2008Filed under: Computers, Software
Ubuntu Linux v8.10 OS will be made available on Thursday 30, as a free download for desktops and servers. This new updated version brings with it a host of new features that adds greater usability; this includes greater 3G wireless…
Apricot Picobook pulling Linux for Windows XP: No MSI Wind headache
By: Peter Chubb | Posted: October 23, 2008Filed under: Computers, Laptops
Apricot is doing their best not to get the same headaches that MSI have got with their Wind Netbooks. Apricot have decided to pull their Linux-based Picobook Pro in favor of the Windows XP version.
