Getting a Linux server hacked and made part of a botnet is easier than some people may think. As two unrelated blog posts published in the past week demonstrate, running a vulnerable piece of software ...

ZaReason CEO Cathy Malmrose said the GameBox 9400 was only the start. "Our current team is mostly gamers so, not surprisingly, that is the direction we are going. We have a full line of gaming ...

Linux in a Box for Dummies is one of the latest offerings for new Linux users from IDG, the Dummies company. This yellow box contains three CDs and a 128-page installation booklet. The CDs contain ...

I have a mandrake 9 box I just set up that I want to be able to VNC into from my other machines. My other 2 boxes are running XP and already have VNC working fine between them. The windows boxen can ...

You might say that the trend to 64-bit Linux systems started in 1994 when Jon “maddog” Hall, then at Digital, gave Linus Torvalds an Alpha workstation. But the mass market started to make the move ...

Hassle-free Linux box might be an oxymoron (like government efficiency), but it's an interesting strategy by startup company Zonbu. They have create a small form factor home PC, used a low-end Via CPU ...

I have admitted several times in this column that I can be absentminded and careless. At least I meant to. Regardless, this tendency got me into an annoying situation recently. I made several changes ...

Chipmaker Zarlink Semiconductor on Tuesday launched a new family of digital television processors that it says will mean smaller, less expensive, more sophisticated hardware for receiving terrestrial ...

VirtualBox is software that runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris, capable of full virtualization. Full virtualization allows VirtualBox to run OSes entirely different than the OS it is running on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Since jumping on the Linux train I've had roughly 27 ideas kicking ...