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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 lags behind competition
By Mayank SharmaThe biggest news in this release of Virtual PC 2007 is its support for Windows Vista, both as host as well as...
Packaging report wrap-up
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Over the last few days we've covered a wide range of software packaging and installation utilities. Some, like Autopackage, Klik, GoboLinux's...
InstallJammer, a self-executing installer for Linux
Author: Michael Stibane
In the crowded Linux packaging landscape, it would be easy to overlook Damon Courtney's InstallJammer. However, InstallJammer, which provides self-executing installers for...
Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment
Author: Mayank Sharma
For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware, thanks to its lower...
Zero Install: An executable critique of native package systems
Author: Bruce Byfield
Zero Install is one of the more promising alternatives to native package systems for Linux distributions, such as RPM and Debian's dpkg....
STUX live CD: Some technical difficulties
Author: Preston St. Pierre
STUX is a Slackware/Knoppix-powered live CD with the Morphix-like ability to build a custom ISO. While the combination has high potential,...
Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil’s Sulamita Garcia
Author: JT Smith
A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the...
ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE
Author: Bruce Byfield
The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project's name is an...
Handling RAR and 7-Zip archives in Linux
The RAR and 7-Zip file compression formats originated on Windows, so support for them on Linux is not as automatic as it is for...
A guide to running OpenVZ
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
One of the many virtualization options for Linux is OpenVZ, the free software component of SWsoft's Virtuozzo. OpenVZ, and Virtuozzo, are...