Practical Technology

Sorry Opera; too bad about what happened to you, Netscape; and Internet Explorer, please, don’t make me laugh. The best Web browser on the planet is Firefox 3.5… for now.
I’ve been using Firefox since day one, and, for the most part, I’ve liked it. And, folks, since I’ve been using the Web since before there [...]

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I can talk until I’m blue in my space about the technical advantages of Linux and open-source software. Forget about that for now though. Let me give you a reason for your office to use them that may strike home: It can save jobs, including, just maybe, your job.
This simple fact was brought home to [...]

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Windows and Mac OS updates every few years. Windows 7 arrives on October 22nd and Apple’s Snow Leopard will show up in September. The Linux kernel, the heart of Linux distributions, however, gets updated every few months.
What this means for you is that Windows and Mac OS are taking large, slow steps, while Linux is [...]

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I’d been waiting for Chrome on Linux since Chrome first showed up. Chrome, if you haven’t tried it, is the speed-demon of Web browsers. I love it. But, until now, there really wasn’t a version that would run natively on Linux. Starting last night, June 4th, Google released developer’s versions of Chrome for Macs and [...]

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One of the great Linux myths is that it doesn’t support modern hardware. What nonsense! I’ve been finding for years that it’s the newer Windows desktops that don’t support equipment.
To make sure that Linux supports hardware, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer and an engineer at Novell, started a project, the LDP (Linux Driver Project), [...]

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