As many people know, Dell started offering Ubuntu Linux V.7.04 earlier this year. This was a huge step for the Linux community to becoming a mainstream end user operating system. However, recently it has come to light that maybe Dell is doing this half heartedly and I partly agree with this claim. 

This is a brilliantly written article by eWeek journalist, Steven J. Vaughan, entitled, "Night of the Living Vista"

Opinion: Vista has turned into the desktop operating system no one wants, and even Microsoft is beginning to get it.

If you have ever thought about switching your main machine to run Windows Vista, you may want to think again, because as claimed by Microsoft, they will not just be supporting Windows XP until June 2008, but it appears they are going to continue supplying Windows XP until that date as well. 

Back in 2001 Tom's generated a lot of publicity by removing the heatsink from a running processor and making it go 'poof'! Now they have done it again by disabling the HSF on processors while benchmarking . The results are interesting and should probably be read by anyone who is concerned about their processor's health. 

Branded by former experience with the Pentium 4 3.6 GHz (throttling under load due to overheating) and Athlon 1200 processors (product killed in action when fan was removed), we decided to put AMD and Intel low-cost and high-end processors to a special stress test by disconnecting the processor fan in order to simulate a fan failure.

In their article, ASUS P5E3 Deluxe: X38 and DDR3 arrives... almost, Anandtech takes an early look at a new motherboard from Asus based on the x38 shipset from Intel with ddr3 memory. Due to some quality testing issues the x38 isn't ready for broad release right now and has been pushed back to mid October so this article isn't based on the final product, merely a mostly final product.

Whats impressive is the performance gains ddr3 has made. Before there was little reason to buy it but this board is showing improved performance compared to ddr2. 

You heard it hear folks, AMD WILL add the triple core processors to its desktops. They will be branded Phenom and launch in the first quarter of 2008. Now, whats interesting is that there are no plans to change the launch date of the quad core Phenom's, so evidently these will be working side by side with the triple core processors.