An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.

I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

Why do GNOME and KDE compete for the Linux desktop?

With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

Is Ubuntu's latest release capable of meeting its lofty support goal?

Four years ago, I saw a picture of a very beautiful desktop interface, called 'Enlightenment', running on an Operating System called 'Linux'. I didn't know much about either, but I downloaded and installed Linux anyway in order to run that fine looking user interface. Thanks to that early interest, I now enjoy a wonderful job designing and maintaining networks in which Linux often fills an important role. There's no better way to learn something new than for it to be enjoyable. With this in mind, I'd like to present Mike's Hopefully nifty guide to having fun with Linux.

CeBIT Australia 2007 is the biggest, most impressive show in years. PC Authority brings you a ringside seat from the IT industry's event of the moment.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Leigh Dyer reveals Novell's radical new X server set against Vista

Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Leigh Dyer shows how virtualisation technologies could change the server market.

In the early-to-mid 'nineties, the industry was buzzing with speculation about the 'new' 32-bit computing platform and, more importantly, how it would integrate into the 16-bit environment.

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important.