Posted 01/09/2008 at 07:25:11pm

And as soon as it is available in my area, GOODBYE to Comcast. Not that I like or trust Verizon but competition is needed. I plan on writing letters to Comcast letting them know why they got dropped...because of the filtering nonsense. I do online gaming, my son does WOW, and sometimes we LAN with private servers and our friends connect with Hamachi. For 3 years, we never had problems, then suddenly...weeks and weeks we had trouble. Comcast said it was us, not them. Then the news broke and it all added up. FIOS is happening in 2 towns to the east and west of us. Our population is about the same and it is an upscale town too. I know FIOS is maybe 12 months away. I CANNOT WAIT TO GET SOME REVENGE!

Posted 07/26/2007 at 01:40:52pm

I have toyed and played with Linux over the past few years. Mostly in the safe confines of a virtual machine under VMWARE. Now I am dual booting Kubuntu on my Compaq laptop and loving it. Unfortunately I need to IE 7 due to career specific websites that demand it and do not support other browsers. It is killing me! Linux is more friendly than ever, more and more books are published on it, the internet is an awesome resource. Now is the time! I know I am deeply annoyed at Apple's proprietary attitude and Microsoft's crush, kill, destroy idealogy. No more drinking the Kool-Aid for me. I hope to be completely free of Windoze within 2 years.

Posted 07/26/2007 at 01:33:36pm

Love the Linux contributions here. I hope for a PDF or print magazine called Maximum Linux one day. My checkbook is open and ready. Keep up the great articles like this.

Posted 07/26/2007 at 01:23:18pm

I loved this article and want to see more Penguin material in the future. I think it would be awesome if Max PC would dedicate just 2 or 3 pages toward the back each month. May I share an idea? I think you have a market here waiting to be dominated by your company. All the decent Linux magazines out there (Linux Format and Linux Pro being the 2 best IMO)are way too expensive! They cost about $150 to $200 US dollars per year. Ironic huh? The gospel is free and open source but the education is $$$! lol They do not offer cheaper subscriptions without DVDs stuck to them. I think MAX PC could either do a print edition with or without DVDs more cheaply (I know I would pay $30-40 per year without DVDs) and grab the US market. It is waiting for you. Here is an even better idea... Why not do a completely downloadable .PDF version on a monthly basis. Maybe charge $10 per year for existing MAX subscribers and $15 per year for non-subscribers. Please, PLEASE consider this. Thanks and keep up the great work. I keep renewing every year.