Dave Briggs points out that it’s increasingly irrelevant what operating system you run on the desktop, as long as you have a good web browser…
You would have thought that working without desktop applications would be pretty tricky. But there are now a growing number of online tools which can help you get things done online […]

Peter Sheltrum writes:
I am using what I think is a very standard system with three machines networked over WiFi using all Netgear equipment.
The desktops are fitted with USB WiFi cards.
I have been unable to find a version of Linux that will load and go on one of these desktops. All load and go as […]

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Andrew Brown is a long-term and experienced user of OpenOffice, the Open Source office suite. He’s written a pretty critical article about it in the Guardian. His main gripe is that a lot of irritating bugs remain unfixed. Then, right at the end, he says this: “But, for what it’s worth, I […]

… before we were rudely interrupted by a malware attack, we’re dedicated to the proposition that people who want to consider switching to non-Microsoft software ought to have a place to go. We’ve used the downtime to rethink the site — in particular to reconsider our strategy. Many users told us that what they […]