We’re proud to announce the two new reviews by Tomek Zieliński that appeared in our BSD section: OpenBSD (3.9) and NetBSD (3.0). Moreover, if you still don’t know the differences between those BSD flavors, you can check out the detailed comparison page: NetBSD vs OpenBSD. Any comments are welcome. Stay tuned since more new reviews and comparisons are coming soon!

There are numerous audio players designed especially for GNOME. However, the problem lays in quality rather than quantity. While looking for a Foobar clone I have found Mesk audio player and took a deeper look at it. Here is what I found out.

Thanks to Rahul Sundaram of the Fedora Project, we managed to correct the Fedora Core description on our vortal (mainly removed a lot of outdated information). We are still looking for a new Fedora editor for PolishLinux.org!

Is Linux a good choice for your old PC? In this article I’m going to examine the main issues connected with using GNU/Linux on some very old hardware. I will also cover choosing a distro, a desktop and the key applications for such a configuration.

As you may know, we’ve been slashdotted. It seems like the Slashdot effect is much harder to handle than the digg effect. As a temporary solution, I deactivated all PolishLinux feeds, as it seems they were responsible for the high load of MySQL. Update: RSS is back now.

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Tomek Zieliński (t_ziel) wrote a new FreeBSD review for PolishLinux.org. If you still don’t know the differences between the most popular BSD flavors, now you can also compare FreeBSD with OpenBSD and with NetBSD.

Although most modern laptops nowadays tend to scare people off with an ugly “Designed for Windows XP” mark, it does not mean that alternative operating systems cannot be installed and function equally well. The article describes the common issues with GNU/Linux on laptops and busts a few myths as well.