Fortysomething Geek

So Ubuntu 14.04 has been released and it promises to have better support for HiDPI (Retina) displays. I decided to take it for a spin ins...

I'm definitely getting old.  The picture you see above is a Cobalt Qube and Raq. It was one of the first micro internet, low proces...

When I first started my career, my mentor showed me a pretty cool trick at the time. He pulled up his desktop screen (which at the time was ...

Today I am going to give my readers a review of Pear OS 7. Unlike my last "short preview," I have a been using Pear OS 7 on a l...

Here is something you don't see too often. Here, I have Pear OS 7 which is a Ubuntu based Linux distribution running on my Thinkpad. ...

Pear OS is an Ubuntu  12.10 based Linux distro with a Mac-like skin. They just released version 7 and I took it for a spin. It definitely ...

Four months ago, I gave a review of Elementary OS. You can read it here . Now, here is my follow-up after four months of use. We...

If there was ever a reason to get a $15 pogoplug hacked to run Arch Linux, this article may sway you. I'm going to show you how ...

Will we ever see an awesome Linux tablet or Phablet? Ubuntu and many have been promising glimpse of an Ubuntu mobile OS to challenge Android...

A reader asked me about Linux and Thunderbolt. Well, I tried it out today and I am here to report some basic findings. My motherboard i...

Elementary OS recently released their Luna Beta 1 . It is one of the new and controversial Linux distro due to it's mac-like aspirations...

If you've been running Ubuntu 11.04 and up, you will notice Canonical no longer provides support for the classic MySQL Query Browser an...