The most recent articles from Personal Computer World

Firefox 3 launches on Tuesday

Clive Akass — 2008-06-13T12:13:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Friday 13 June 2008 at 12:13:00

Mozilla browser is said to be fast, friendlier and safer

A new version of Firefox to be released on Tuesday packs a much-improved bookmarks feature and the ability to resume interrupted downloads from the break point....

Hands on: The changing face of Fedora

Barry Shilliday — 2008-05-19T10:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Monday 19 May 2008 at 10:00:00

Ubuntu may be the most popular desktop distribution, but Fedora support is strong

Regular readers will know that Ubuntu Linux is often the focus of this column. The distribution has come to dominate mainstream Linux use outside corporate server rooms....

Hands on: What you need to run Linux

Barry Shilliday — 2008-04-01T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 1 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Find out what type of hardware you need to run the open-source operating system

Some people who are new to Linux want to install the operating system on an older, second computer, to try it out and see how they get on....

Review: Sapphire HD2600 Pro AGP graphics card

Simon Crisp — 2007-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Friday 14 December 2007 at 00:00:00

The first DirectX 10 card in AGP format

Just like an alien creature in some 1950s B movie, AGP refuses to die. No matter what the big two in the graphics market might say or think, the demand...

Linux for business use

Alan Stevens — 2007-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 00:00:00

We’re increasingly encouraged to look beyond Windows for our OS. We show you where to begin with Linux

The recent fine levied on Microsoft by the European anti-trust authorities has reminded people just how dominant Microsoft is in the industry....

Hands On: Game On

Barry Shilliday — 2007-11-05T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Monday 5 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Find out how Linux could be the ideal solution for your old Dos games

Not many people switching to Linux will do so in order to play games. It comes as no surprise that just about all commercially released games for PCs run on...

£199 Asus ultra-mobile launched

Clive Akass — 2007-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 1 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Linux-based notebook with 7in screen on sale for Christmas

Asus is launching its much-heralded £199 (inc Vat) ultra-mobile in Britain in time for the Christmas market. The Eee PC 2G Surf has a 7in screen, 256MB Ram, a 2GB...

Hands on: A word in your shell

Barry Shilliday — 2007-09-21T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Friday 21 September 2007 at 00:00:00

The Linux command line is less frightening than you might think

Recently we have concentrated on the desktop aspects of Linux, particularly on the Ubuntu Linux distributions. This time we will move away from the desktop and instead take a look...

Gallery: Configuring Mythtv

Harry Burrows — 2007-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Harry Burrows, Personal Computer World, Friday 24 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Using Linux Media Centre

Paul Monckton — 2007-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Monckton, Personal Computer World, Friday 24 August 2007 at 00:00:00

You don’t need Windows to put a PC at the heart of your home entertainment system; We explain the options

With the release of Windows Vista, using your PC to watch and record TV has become a whole lot easier....

Hands on: Ubuntu Linux – Kubuntu and Xubuntu

Barry Shilliday — 2007-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 25 July 2007 at 00:00:00

A look at two variants of the latest Ubuntu Linux release

In April the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, Feisty Fawn, was released. In this article, we are turning our attention to Kubuntu....

Hands on: Booting problems with Linux

Barry Shilliday — 2007-05-24T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Thursday 24 May 2007 at 00:00:00

How the Linux boot process begins – and how to overcome common problems

We have previously looked at some of the booting and filesystem aspects of Linux and PCs, including partitions and image files....

Hands on: Running other operating systems alongside Linux

Barry Shilliday — 2007-04-17T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 17 April 2007 at 00:00:00

A look at the ins and outs of dual-boot setups

A few months back the Linux NTFS project released beta drivers for full read-and-write access to NTFS partitions. Previously, read-only support was offered in the kernel, with write support considered...

Hands on: Brush up your image

Barry Shilliday — 2007-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Thursday 22 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Linux can treat an image file – an exact copy of your disk data – as a device itself

A partition on a hard drive holds a filesystem, which is an ordered and structured layout on the disk for files and directories to be stored on....

Analysis: Open season on document standards

Clive Akass — 2007-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 12 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Microsoft charm offensive counters claims that proposed OpenXML standard does not meet needs of emerging multi-platform world

You can take for granted that you will be able to read a basic web page, whatever your hardware or browser, because the web’s description language HTML is a global...