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Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will be releasing a 3-dollar Windows software suite might sound like a charitable gesture, if it weren’t so wrapped in context: In addition to any outstanding antitrust suits, Microsoft has now embarked on new lawsuit frontiers for its marketing of Vista. The 3-dollar version of Windows in question is severely [...]

Thinking about Linux? Then you’ll probably want to try a distribution that comes complete with all the software trimmings, including the capability to play MP3s, DVD movies, plus Flash and other web video right off the bat. While Linux is not difficult to get used to, it’s nice to be able to just use it [...]

On April 4, 2007, Linux software driver developer Michael Buesch revealed that other programmers working on the OpenBSD operating system had copied code licensed under GNU Public License v.2 (GPL), incorporated it into their own code, and released the result under the incompatible BSD license without asking permission. In addition to violating the terms of [...]

Once again Microsoft is in court. No, not another antitrust case, but over the alleged misrepresentation in the marketing of Windows Vista; specifically, the “Vista Capable” stickers applied to a number of PCs. These computers are, in fact, able to run Vista — but only the most stripped-down Basic version that lacks the highly touted [...]

If you’re sick of seeing “MMS is not a registered protocol” when trying to view streaming content, here’s the fix (compiled from a few half-correct or half-clear descriptions from around the net). I use Debian Linux with the KDE desktop, but this should work so long as you’ve got Firefox and Kaffeine installed. Mplayer or [...]