Archive for the ‘Desktops’ Category

Shop for Dell PCs featuring Ubuntu Linux

Last month Dell announced their partnership with Ubuntu, now finally the first batch of PCs featuring preloaded Ubuntu Linux is being sold at Dell’s Open site. So, let’s look at what they are offering? Currently they have 2 desktop PCs and 1 laptop. Desktop configurations as follows:
Dimension E520 N – $599
Intel® Core™2 Duo [...]

How to be secure while surfing the net on your PC?

Days past away when there was dial-up and the speed was slow, now almost everybody has DSL connection at home. Eventually, you will face security, virus, spyware, adwares, trojan horses and etc problems. This post will explain how and what softwares, mostly free and/or open source softwares and tools to prevent and enhance your personal [...]

Linux Desktop for old PCs

Continuing my post on how to use old PCs this post is about how you can use your old PC as a spare Desktop. You can use it for listening music, do some text processing and surf the internet.
In my case I chose a Dell box with Pentium II, 399Mhz CPU, 64MB RAM [...]