Linux has a fantastic selection of firewalls for securing stand-alone computers or whole networks. Although you can use IPTables to set up a firewall, the configuration is often the most difficult step. KMyFirewall offers a powerful, user-friendly, GUI-based approach.

Will your strategies of coexistence work for the newest version of Windows? We examined Windows Vista with an emphasis on issues of Linux compatibility.

The alternative Kbfx menu offers flatter navigation and some interesting extras.

The changes in Gnome 2.16 are more than cosmetic: the current release sees a leaner and faster version of the desktop.

KAlarm is a lean alternative calendar program. You can use this handy alarm clock as an easy-to-use replacement for cron.

A handy Firefox extension called ScrapBook lets you save, manage, and annotate web pages.

Linspire is pushing a new non-commercial version called Freespire. We took the Freespire beta for a test drive.

Mindmaps are useful for organizing ideas and data. Treeline is a promising mindmap tool for KDE.