Stumbled across this in the Internet Archive...

Red Hat Linux 6.2 Deluxe

Red Hat used to be a big fish in a small pond, but version 6.2 must prove itself seaworthy.Red Hat is one ofthe longest-established Linux distributions and the first to be split into packages - archived bundles containing all the programs and supplementary files forming an ( Read more... )

Not to blow my own horn, but, er, well, OK, yes I am. Tootle-toot.

I'm back writing for the Register again, in case you hadn't noticed. A piece a month for the last 2 months ( Read more... )

I was just prodded by someone when suggesting that some friends try Linux. I forgot to mention that you can try it without risking your existing PC setup. It prompted me to write this ( Read more... )

I have ruffled many feathers with my position that the touch-driven computing sector is growing so fast that it's going to subsume the old WIMP model completely. I don't mean that iPads will replace Windows PCs, but that the descendants of the PC will look and act more like tablets than today's desktops and laptops ( Read more... )

(Repurposed CIX post ( Read more... )

E-book readers are full of electronics. These require large expensive factories, which use a lot of resources. Then the devices are shipped, consuming resources - such hi-tech manufacture is expensive, therefore is done somewhere cheap, meaning international shipping. Books are cheap to print.

Then you need a computer with Internet access to get ( Read more... )

I love my Android phone in some ways - what it can do is wonderful. The formfactor of my Nokia E90 was better in every single way, though. Give the Nokia a modern CPU, replace its silly headphone socket, MiniUSB port & Nokia charging port with a standard jack & a MicroUSB, make the internal screen a touchscreen, and I would take your arm off in my ( Read more... )

I do it myself. I wrote some get-started-with-Linux articles for the Register a while ago and got panned for that in the comments.

There are good reasons, though. It's just that all the n00bs and Windows lusers are scared of text, they want point-and-drool. ;-)

The things are these:

* with text, you can copy & paste - you can't do that with  ( Read more... )

I quite like VirtualBox. Yes, VMWare has strengths, but VBox works a treat, does the seamless-desktop thing with certain
hosts/guests, and basically why pay?

I use VMware Player when I'm doing stuff that requires direct USB access - it's a lot less hassle than VBox for that. You need to run it with admin rights, though, which is a snag.

But when I am ( Read more... )

I have spent a lot of time and effort this year on learning my way around the current generation of Windows Server OSs, and the end result is that I've learned that I really profoundly dislike them ( Read more... )