Recently helping with Windows 7 migrations, I've taken a look at "XP Mode" in Windows 7. It was hyped up by everybody as offering backwards compatibility in Windows 7. Much to my surprise when I got ...

The Linux hype this time was precipitated by Valve's Linux-based operating system, SteamOS, opening up for use on other ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often ...

Microsoft announced this morning it has signed an historic agreement with the Linux Foundation guaranteeing compatibility between Windows and Linux going forward. Software Freedom Law Center head Eben ...

It looks like Valve is working behind the scenes on enabling Linux game compatibility tools to work on Steam. These compatibility tools allow games developed for Windows to work on Linux, similar to ...

August 27, 2018 Steam's new Linux compatibility tools work with over a thousand games, according to community testing. A major Steam update currently in beta has added built-in compatibility tools to ...

Nitpick: you are off by quite a few years on the CPU/RAM combo. Even my summer-2000 rid had a P3-coppermine. By 2005 when I was installing gaming rigs for my friends, they were mostly debating between ...

I'm using Linux Mint 15 now and will installing Linux Mint 16 or fedora 20 on it if I get it. I did do a search for Linux compatibility, but all found was old information on older models and problems ...

Valve is working to bring more games to Linux users by rolling out a new beta version of Steam Play, which includes a modified version of Wine, called Proton, to provide compatibility with Windows ...