Reviews

The new Gnome desktop offers a simpler work environment – once you become accustomed to the new navigation tools.

Wiki engines drive patient data stores, repositories for ideas or documentation, and treasure troves of knowledge of all kinds. In this review, we put six of these engines through their paces.

Trusted’s Security Blanket lets you analyze security compliance in a few easy steps.

While users are surfing the web, listening to music, and writing documents, the kernel and various background daemons write information to logfiles. KSystemLog, Gnome System Log Viewer, and MultiTail will help you read and process logfile data.

Version 4.4 sees the KDe Software Compilation reach a status on par with the user friendliness and stability of good old KDe 3.5. On top of this, many features are new.

Firefox goes mobile – a “desktop” browser in the palm of your hand.

We compare some popular Linux media players, including Banshee, Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Songbird.

Version 10.10 of the Opera web suite lets you put a server in your browser.

This alternative interface for netbooks ditches the desktop metaphor.

This alternative desktop is designed specifically for computers harboring Intel's Atom processor.