The Chrome revolution has been postponed

by Eric Pettifor Last year at this time I predicted that a small revolution in web apps would occur in 2010, thanks to the introduction of Google Chrome OS, and may have implied that this would have a negative effect on the iPhone. I also expressed the opinion that, if all went well with the [...]

Why does anyone use Windows?

By Eric Pettifor I am much more enamoured of my Acer Aspire One netbook since I put the Xubuntu Linux distribution on it (instructions here).  The original Linux interface strongly suggested that its developers thought people would like the netbook to be a simple internet appliance.  An interesting idea. However, it looks like a laptop, [...]

Gubuntuk

For some time I laboured under the mistaken impression that I was running the Kubuntu operating system on my computer at work. I had installed Ubuntu, and then the KDE desktop environment, and Ubuntu with KDE is Kubuntu, or so goes the conventional geek belief. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as that, as I discovered [...]