Fortysomething Geek

Mac OS 7 had this back in the mid 1990s. Now, you can have this same feature on Ubuntu 14.04 in 2014. Mac OS calls it labels. This is ba...

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...

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...

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...

I just recently unloaded a trusty X120e on Craigslist. It served me well for over a year and it is now time for a newer Linux machine....

In my day job, I tend to keep up to date with relevant technologies and one of the latest web buzzwords today is noSQL. CouchDB, Cassandra,...

With the advent of fast SSDs capable of reading/writing 200-500 Mb a second, is there a need for ramdisks?  I decided to try it out in Ubunt...

I finally made the switch to Ubuntu 12.04 from 10.0.4 on my personal machines. As for my professional needs, I am still using CentOS. For th...