By this time, everyone knows that Google’s announcement to roll out their own operating system that will compete with Microsoft Windows head on. Unlike Windows, Google Chrome OS will be open source and doest not cost anything for people to use. However, the real competitor is not Microsoft Windows. What is it? Incoming search terms:infocenter [...]

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This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot – it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

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