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.

The cost of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will encourage more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, the chief executive of open-source and networking company Novell ...

European businesses are only considering migrating to Linux when they decide to deploy new applications, but most currently have no intention of moving to Windows Vista either, according to a survey ...

All of those distros and all that command-line scripting for basic tasks have made those who are less than eager to dedicate hours to fine-tuning a PC keep far away from Linux. The Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy ...

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 ...

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, ...