The end of Microsoft support for XP has some considering Linux or other OS moves. Think hard before you go down that path Years back, I was very interested in Linux as a desktop OS. Red Hat was my ...

VMware, whose software lets computers run numerous operating systems simultaneously, expects a boost from Windows XP with its coming version 3.0. VMware Workstation 3.0, going on sale Monday, is ...

Linux is only marginally more difficult for users to learn compared with Windows XP, according to a study carried out by German usability testing agency. The tests, which compared SuSE Linux 8.2 ...

Microsoft will soon end official support for Windows XP, and OMG! Ubuntu! thinks that Lubuntu could be the perfect replacement. Lubuntu is a lightweight spin of Ubuntu that provides a more traditional ...

I have the question about mounting windows partitin so all my data would be accessible from Linux.<P> I am curently runing RedHat Linux 7.2 .<BR> I tried traditional mounting (i.e. I typed the command ...

Everybody has a version of Windows that’s their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at ...

You can setup both a Samba server & an a FTP server on your Linux box. So, the Samba server will take care of sharing files with your Windows box; and the FTP server will take care of sharing files ...

Someone gave Shilissa Stimpson an old Windows XP PC. She asked what she can do with it. Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to ...

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...

This is perhaps one of the most Windows-like distribution of Linux. It is somewhat a replica of Windows 7, with the Start menu, Taskbar, etc. The speed of the OS distribution is appreciable. Zorin OS ...