but with a few tweaks it can run a full Linux installation instead, turning it into a much more versatile machine. This specific Android TV box is based on the Rockchip 3566, a popular single ...

Getting a Linux server hacked and made part of a botnet is easier than some people may think. As two unrelated blog posts published in the past week demonstrate, running a vulnerable piece of ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

And, as it just so happens, I had some floppies for it in my closet (in a box labeled ... a modern Linux distro underneath. In fact, I have written this very post from DOS.

There is only one bit that is licensed: the VirtualBox Extension Pack, which is in the box at the top ... We described how to do that in part 2 of The Register Guide to Linux, although it was ...

But if you’d rather have a small, low-power XBMC box that runs on Linux, new options might be available soon. Pivos Technology’s XIOS box can run Android or Linux, and there are XBMC builds ...

Linux in a Box for Dummies is one of the latest offerings for new Linux users from IDG, the Dummies company. This yellow box contains three CDs and a 128-page installation booklet. The CDs contain ...

Pogo Linux and MySQL AB have partnered to deliver an open-source database appliance running MySQL on Linux in a bid to deliver an alternative to expensive products based on proprietary database ...

Test Center review: It’s certainly not intuitive to pronounce, but the open source QEMU can be used to, among other things, blow your friends’ minds by launching Linux via the USB port of a PC ...

For all the cool things the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and other low-power Linux boards can do, there’s one thing we haven’t seen much of: creating music with software synthesizers. Yes ...

And it Zis fast as greased lightning. In the end, did I replace my fancy Linux desktop with good old DOS? Nope. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. But the power of combining the two is just ...