Archive for the ‘Closed Source Software’ Category

  1. Apr
    07

    Building A Modern eComStation (OS/2) Personal Computer

    My company, ERA Computers & Consulting, builds personal computers and servers to customer specifications for customers that want pre-loaded eComStation, specific Linux distribution, FreeBSD, other operating system pre-installed or no operating system installed. These personal computers and servers are all x86 type systems with one or more AMD single-core or dual-core processors. We do not [...]

  2. Apr
    03

    A Business Case for Linux? (Laptops Marketed and Sold as Microsoft Vista Ready)

    I have had the dubious pleasure of helping more than one Microsoft Vista laptop user recover from “This thing is really slow” syndrome. So far the fix has been to take the pre-loaded Vista laptops that were sold with only 512MB of RAM installed, pull out the 512MB of RAM and install at least 2GB [...]

  3. Mar
    27

    Review - Adobe Photoshop Express

    I will confess I am a GIMP guy on Linux. I often see forum and USENET posts from Microsoft fanatics that state since (insert commercial software here) cannot be found for Linux no one is going to use Linux. One of the oft mentioned applications in this category is Adobe’s Photoshop. Others will recommend GIMP [...]