After several failed attempts to install Ubuntu Feisty fawn as guest OS on Parallels Desktop on the Mac, I gave up and decided to install Solaris 10 instead.

Whilst installing Solaris 10 as a guest …

Ubuntu releases version 7.0.4, code-named Feisty fawn, last Thursday. This same code-base becomes the basis for Kubuntu, a KDE-based Ubuntu version, and Edubuntu, Ubuntu for Education (see image).

Th…

Within a span of 10 days, our active Linux distro groups churned out several new distributions, either on a full release or on alpha/beta. Here's a list of some of them:

1. CentOS 5, a Red-Hat-ba…

Debian is one of the major Linux distributions available today. With some recent changes in the Debian leadership with Sam Hocevar getting elected as its leader, version 4, code-named "Etch"…

Healthcare Informatics (you can call it Biomedical Informatics or simply Medical Informatics) is a research area that interests me. This new linux distribution, Linux for Clinics, is a welcome additio…

With Sony Playstation 3 running Yellow Dog Linux, I am sure that you'd like another game console go the same route – I know I would. Don't worry, I found a way to mod the Xbox 360 and install …

Linux on a pre-Intel Mac meant using Yellow Dog Linux, the most stable and most popular distribution (imho) for the PowerPC architecture. I remember dual-booting one of our Emacs with Mac OS X and Yel…

If you want to use the latest Gnome release (v.2.18) without upgrading a current install, try the latestversion (1.1) of Foresight Linux.

OR if you have Fedora Core 6 Desktop and would want to try o…

Freespire, the community-based version of commercial Linux distribution, Linspire, just released the alpha 1U version of Freespire 2.0. Freespire 2.0 is based on Ubuntu and comes with the 2.6.20 kerne…

It should be evident that I use both a Mac OS X and a Linux on a daily basis. OK, I admit that I use Mac OS X more but hey, Linux isn't that far behind. :)

Anyway, one of the issues everyone face…