Adam Overa

Chrome 13, Firefox 6, Safari 5.1, and Mac OS X Lion (10.7) have all emerged since our last Web Browser Grand Prix. Today, we test the latest browsers on both major platforms. How do the Mac-based browsers stack up against their Windows 7 counterparts?

Three major released have landed since our last impromptu Web Browser Grand Prix (WBGP4): Chrome 12, Firefox 5, and Opera 11.50. Can Chrome or Opera regain the WBGP championship? Will Mozilla Firefox ever overtake Microsoft's IE9 in the rankings?

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) has arrived, and we have the scoop on everything you need to know about Canonical's latest Linux, along with the usual review and benchmarks. Is this the change we've been waiting for, or is the Natty Narwhal a fail whale?

It's official! After four months of delays, twelve betas, and two RCs, Firefox 4 has gone final. But after all that, does this fox still have teeth? Can Internet Explorer 9 retain the WBGP title, or will it become the shortest-lived champion to date?

With highly-anticipated Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 now available, along with recently released Google Chrome 10, superb Opera 11, newly updated Apple Safari 5.04, and rock-steady Mozilla Firefox 3.6, this is going to be quite an interesting race.

Hot on the heels of Audio Apps, Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup brings you Audio Production. These are the tools that enable audio content creation on the PC. Whether you're a musician or just need to edit audio clips, we've covered all the bases.

We're back with the fifth installment of Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup. Today, we'll be covering general end-user audio consumption applications, designed for organizing, playing, ripping, tagging, converting, and basic recording of audio.

After a long hiatus from Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup, Adam Overa is back with the fourth installment in the series covering Image Apps. This is a showcase of Linux software designed for creating, viewing, editing, and organizing image files.

Every April and October a new version of Ubuntu is released. For the past few years, October releases of the world's most popular consumer Linux distro have been grim. Did Canonical get it right this year, or is Ubuntu 10.10 yet another Halloween horror?

Last week we showed Opera 10.60 to be the world's fastest Web browser. That was in the Windows world. But where do Chrome, Firefox, and Opera stand in Linux? Today we find out. Adding the Win 7 results, we'll also learn which OS has the speediest browser.

A few months ago we pitted the top five web browsers against each other to find out which is truly the fastest and Chrome took the title. Since then, major new version changes have been released for Chrome as well as its competitors. Today is the rematch.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pinning its hopes of OEM acceptance on the Lucid Lynx. We've put the screws to this new Long Term Support (LTS) release, comparing it to Canonical's previous LTS release, 8.04 Hardy Heron, to look for progress.

Having covered Linux installation, running Windows XP in Ubuntu, Internet applications, and a handful of open source communications titles, Adam Overa is back with a comprehensive look at office apps for Windows users considering a switch to Linux.

We've put Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, and Opera through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in our rankings?

Is Ubuntu's latest release, the "Karmic Koala," any good, or just a bunch of hype? We've had a solid month to check it out and are ready to publish our review. We're even debuting our brand new cross-platform benchmark suite to compare 9.10 to 9.04.

This is the second part of our Linux Software Roundup. Part one covered Internet Apps. Today we'll be looking at Communications Apps. This includes personal information managers, email clients, instant messengers, VoIP software, and IRC clients.

Windows 7's XP Mode has already convinced many users who sat out for Vista to go out and upgrade. But will they buy the right version of Windows 7 to get XPM? You do know you can get the same XP functionality from a Linux distribution for free, right?

You've already read our Ubuntu 9.04 install guide for Windows users. Now we're looking at Internet apps, including Web browsers, RSS readers, podcatchers, FTP clients, download managers, BitTorrent clients, and a slew of other file sharing solutions.

Are you a die-hard Windows user, sworn to shun all things Apple, yet (secretly) intimidated by the pocket-protector stereotype of Linux? Fear not! We got our hands on Ubuntu 9.04 and walk you through getting it running in this step-by-step guide.