Practical Technology

Opinion I’ve been preaching the gospel of the Linux desktop for more years than some of you have been alive. However, unless you argue that the Linux desktop includes Android smartphones and ChromeOS laptops, there will be no year of the Linux…Read More

Usually, when it comes to a business cloud decision, you’re going to go with one of the big players: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Services, IBM Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. You know their names. But the bigger clouds aren’t always suitable…Read More

The good news is that tens of thousands of GitHub repositories were not hacked. I repeat, “Not hacked.” But many repositories have been cloned and then laced with poisonous malware content. In this case, software programmer Stephen Lacy reported on…Read More

One of my favorite old PCs is a Dell Inspiron One 2320. This all-in-one (AIO) computer with a 2.4Ghz Intel Pentium Dual Core i5 processor, 6GBs of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT525M, and a 320GB hard drive is a great machine… for 2012. Ten years later? Not…Read More

I’ve been using Linux desktops since the interface debate was between the C shell and Bash. I’ve used over 100 major Linux desktops. But over the past few years, time and again, Linux Mint has proven to be simply the best Linux desktop of all. And…Read More

As I said the other week, small businesses can still do well by sticking with their own servers. That said, many of them are also moving toward the cloud. We’re in a time of transition: as the most recent annual Flexera State of the Cloud Report…Read More