WattOS is a new Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware. But the developers are additionally hoping to build advanced potential management features into the OS so that you’ll have…

Truecrypt has been a trusted name in on-the-fly encryption for ages (v5 arrived in February). What’s new in version 6? Plenty.

One of the biggest advances is support for multiple processors, which provides a boost in the encryption/decryption speed equal to the number of processors/cores in u…

The K Desktop Environment, or KDE, is best known as a user interface and software suite for Linux. But for the past few months a team of developers has been tough at work porting KDE applications to Windows. When we looked at the KDE on Windows project earlier that year, it was still in the earl…

Maybe you’ve taken some instance and fooled around a bit with Quanta Plus and Bluefish and decided that they weren’t for you. perhaps you just looked at the features, and the GUIs and thought, “I’d rather pluck my nose hairs out than use those.”

That’s okay. We’re not about to pass judgment o…

Like all Linux distributions, Ubuntu is built on open source software, which means anybody can examine and modify the software used in the operating system, right down to the kernel. But in order for Ubuntu to take full advantage of your computer’s hardware, there’s a good chance you’re going to…

So a funny thing happened on the way to Pidgin 2.4.1. The developers of the open source, cross-platform, multi-chat protocol client recently implemented a new feature. When you’re typing in a text box, it will start out just large abundant for a few lines of text. And whether your data gets long…

Back on April 24th, we fortunately installed a clean version of the 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy Heron release. For a few days, life was sweet. Hardy had Firefox, and we very easily installed Flash from the Hardy repositories. It all seemed to work fine, at first glance.

The honeymoon ended really qui…

Ah, Flickr. How we love you. We loved the idyllic pre-Yahoo! days, and held back our tears with the Yahoo! phase of growth. But even when things seem so good, we wonder what the future holds. Microsoft? AOL? An undead rebellion?

Now couple our fears with our stupidity. All those photos we upl…

Do you forget stuff? Do you wonder where the heck you put the keys when they’re in your right hand? Do you get in the shower with your socks still on? Do you ever get to the bus stop, and realize you can’t recall whether you’ve put on pants? We’re the only ones? Really? Damn.

We’re willing to…

Please, allow me to explain. that week’s FTLS was not at all what I intended it to be. For weeks now, I’ve been toying with view of dual-booting a Debian based distro with a RPM based distro. Ubuntu Hardy (now reasonably mature abundant for day to day use with minimal bork ups) was the obvious c…