Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Participate in democracy, get Windows emulation on Linux or MacOS for free

Friday, September 7th, 2012

iTWire: CodeWeavers announces it will give away CrossOver for Linux and MacOS for free over the course of a day if 100,000 eligible USA voters pledge to vote in the 2012 Presidential Election.

The raw truth about Linux game ports

Monday, June 4th, 2012

iTWire: Previously I’ve mooted an obstacle preventing Linux adoption is the need for more big game titles, rather than productivity apps. This week, in the wake of its Humble Indie Bundle debut, Tim Schafer explains what porting Psychonauts to Linux was like.

All-in-one Linux computer and phone so near, so far

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

iTWire: I am so disappointed that the hype and expectation of the Motorola Atrix was not met with its reality.

Could Ubuntu Linux 12.04 turn Canonical into the new Apple?

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

iTWire: Mark Shuttleworth proposes a new imagining of the traditional WIMP user interface, focusing on user intent rather than a hierarchy of menu items.

Set up your own Linux LAMP server painlessly as a Windows virtual machine

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

iTWire: Even the most Microsoft-ardent developer will know web hosts favour Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP over Windows, IIS, ASP.NET and SQL Server. Thanks to virtualisation the days of dual booting are over. Here is how to set up a streamlined LAMP development environment on any Windows PC.

Linux wall warts – small on size, big on possibilities!

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

iTWire: Every geek and technology lover will undoubtedly have stumbled across online adverts for tiny headless Linux-powered devices that are barely larger than the power point they plug into. What can you actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!

SlashDotted! Yeah!

Torvalds quits Linux, joins Microsoft next-gen OS team

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

iTWire: In a move certain to surprise, shock and even anger many, the creator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, today signed up as Chief Software Architect with Microsoft to work on the Redmond Giant’s next-generation operating system with Dave Cutler.

The best VPN for Windows is Linux

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

iTWire: The problem with corporate networks is they not only stop the bad guys coming in but also your users who want to work remotely, whether at home, at a client site or on the road. Here is where a VPN product comes in, and the simplest to deploy on Windows is a Linux virtual appliance called OpenVPN.

Linux saves the day

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

My latest iTWire story is about a problem I faced on Monday. A Fujitsu laptop running Windows Vista Business just would not boot. Diagnostics showed a registry corruption but the recovery console was not installed, Windows auto-repair attempts failed, the Windows installer wouldn’t provide an ‘upgrade’ option when booted from DVD … but happily I could fix the problem using an Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD.

This story is doing brilliantly on Digg, hitting the front page last night.

Microsoft contributes 22,000 lines of code to Linux kernel

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

iTWire: I kid you not, Microsoft has submitted GPL 2.0 source code which has already been accepted for the next kernel release.