Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

Not only can you stream movies from your PC to your big screen TV, but you can turn an Xbox into a media centre, and tap into online video on demand, all from the comfort of your lounge

Linux developer Mandriva has updated its operating-system-on-a-stick with the release of Mandriva Flash 2010, which includes a bootable version of the software on a USB Flash drive.

Take this free multi-format archive manager on the road

Israeli mobile phone manufacturer Emblaze Mobile has unveiled a new Linux-based handset, the 'First Else', a phone dedicated to providing a "unique user experience"

Quickly convert your bookmarks between browsers

Quickly convert your bookmarks between browsers

Build yourself a system rescue disc

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Quickly view satellite maps of the Earth

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Red Hat has released the latest version of its Fedora open source operating system and has added new video, virtualisation and networking support..

Schedule a project & track tasks

Host a virtual operating system

Host a virtual operating system

AMD is opening the champers after its six-core AMD Opteron processor based system was named as the world's most powerful supercomputer.

Customise your Windows desktop

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.