Jim Lynch: Tech Analyst and Community Manager

Why were so many prominent companies missing from the show?

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Interoperability has been the Holy Grail of instant messaging for years. But squabbles among AOL, Microsoft, and others have prevented these companies from opening their services to competing IM client software. Fortunately, the open-source community recognizes no such limits and has come up with an excellent multiprotocol instant-messaging client called Gaim (free download). We looked [...]

I took a trek to frigid New York City in search of the latest desktop Linux news. Here’s the second part of my report from New York.

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Intuit is following in the footsteps of giants. Wrongheaded, mistrustful, overcontrolling giants. (Agree with me? Tell me what you think in our discussion forum.)
When Microsoft released Office XP and Windows XP with product activation embedded in both products, consumers and pundits alike responded with a gigantic hue and cry. Many Windows users were angry and [...]

The latest blast of great distros continues with Xandros Desktop. Xandros is another debian based distro, geared toward the desktop and promising good Windows compatibility. Our initial impression of Xandros is very positive. It lives up to a lot of its potential, with a few drawbacks.
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The real question though is – should KDE even be bothering with this project? Ximian’s Evolution is already a great Outlook clone and even lets users sync with Exchange servers (with a separately purchased add-on). So why should KDE waste its time reinventing the wheel? Why not let users simply use Evolution? Or some other [...]

As you might remember from my earlier column about Lindows, I wasn’t very optimistic about it, for a variety of reasons. Well we finally had a chance to sit down with it and surprise, surprise; here at ExtremeTech we were impressed. Lindows is a very slick, highly useable OS. In fact, I liked it so [...]

Sometimes it’s important to remember what we’re fighting for in the war on terror. On this page you’ll find links to some moving images and sounds that will bring back the loss and horror of September 11, 2001. It’s not easy to watch these presentations but it’s important that we NEVER forget what happened that day. Never.

Linux has always gotten a bad rap when it comes to productivity applications. Time and time again naysayers have complained that “Linux is a fine OS but what good is it if I can’t run Microsoft Office?”
Well fret no more. Apps on Linux have finally arrived! There’s been a slew of recent version 1.0 or [...]

A Blast From the Past
This is a screenshot of the old ZDNet Games channel (this channel existed briefly before gamespot.com became a part of ZDNet). I’ve included it here because it was a very fun thing for me to do and looking at the screenshot reminds me of how far the medium has come. I [...]