A user or sysadmin posts about problems with a brand new Vista PC on a support forum. Within minutes, a "helpful" soul suggests a fix: "Install Linux!" Enthusiasts have always touted Linux as the best ...

Customers are getting annoyed. They spent good money on the latest and greatest PC peripherals, only to find out that the hardware is only partially supported on their operating system of choice.

Last week I wrote about the poor performance of Windows Vista under the VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC environments. I noted that Vista was slower than it should be under virtualization, ...

It's not just as simple as pre-loading Linux onto a hard drive, either. It's pre-loading it into PCs or notebooks that provide value. Fahmida Y. Rashid examined the Lenovo ThinkPad T61 this week, ...

I've been playing with my Dell 600m for a while now, and I've noticed that the battery life under Linux is significantly worse than under Windows, even with processor speed scaling & such ...