From global distributed projects like Seti@Home to corporate uses behind the firewall, we cover the fundamentals of distributed computing architectures, discuss major initiatives and applications, and talk about the challenges that lay ahead.

In the first segment of a two-part story, the history of Virtual Machines is explained, how they operate in "real" machines, how hardware virtualization works, and the techniques used by VMware's virtualization technology. The second part describes th...

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Deep technology content. Tutorials, discussion and analysis of core and emerging computing technology. From Ziff Davis Media.

Provides deep technical content about new products and technologies. Includes detailed reviews, analysis, do-it-yourself tutorials, resource links, and discussions.

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Desktop-oriented review. [Extremetech]

Change of heart: From our in-depth testing, it turns out that Lindows 2.0 isn't a disappointment after all. In fact, we kind of liked it. It is a very slick, highly usable OS. [ZDNet ExtremeTech]

Rates 9 of 10. MandrakeSoft's Linux has reputation for being one of easiest to install, most user friendly Linux distributions on market, a reputation well deserved; latest release continues to improve on this. [ExtremeTech]

"Mandrake Linux 8.1 is the easiest to install and user-friendly Linux distro on the market." High marks for 8.1 from extremetech.