I have taken the next step in setting up my Ubuntu working environment, and maintaining access to XP on my laptops for the few things that I still can only do on Windows. As always, I have started ...

I'd like to be able to remote into my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine from my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop. From what I read it should be easy to do using Remote Desktop but I spent the better part of last evening ...

After several days of struggle, I am still unable to get a triple-boot disk set up on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. The first problem that I ran into was that the Windows installation disks I have are ...

Everybody has a version of Windows that’s their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at ...

Linux, and Ubuntu in particular, missed a golden opportunity to truly break into the mainstream market during the early days of Vista. The buggy operating system (prior to SP1) left consumers angry ...

Blogger Ilya Hevnikov has posted a really nice tutorial for triple-booting Windows XP, Windows Vista, and the Linux distro du jour, Ubuntu, on one hard drive. A couple of months ago, I wrote a similar ...

Ubuntu 14.04 includes support for high-res displays, and is a viable alternative to XP or Windows 7, Canonical says.

Chinese-language consumers unwilling or unable to pay the cost of a legitimate copy of Microsoft’s Windows XP now have a new alternative: a clone of the operating system that’s based on Ubuntu. Dubbed ...

Dell has begun offering the Inspiron Mini 12 mini-laptop with Windows XP as an option. When Dell launched the not-quite-a-netbook a few months back, it was only available with Windows Vista. Now you ...