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BIOSLEVEL.com takes an in-depth look at the performance of HighPoint's two-channel RocketRAID 3120 SATA RAID controller in Linux. HighPoint's GPL-Licensed driver was recently integrated with kernel 2.6.25, but is the hardware ready for Linux?

QNAP's TS-409U is an excellent centralized storage solution that not only requires minimal setup and maintenance, but runs embedded Linux and software RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6. BIOSLEVEL.com looks at the unit's performance and value.

Sapphire supplied us with one of their initial Radeon HD4850 videocards, which features 512MB of GDDR3 memory, CrossFireX support, and is probably one of the fastest cards we've looked at yet.

The 9600 GSO is nVidia's latest foray in the mid-level 9000 series of GeForce cards, and is also the cheapest for a performance card. BIOSLEVEL.com looks at the unit's performance in Linux and Windows.

BIOSLEVEL.com looks at a mouse with macros meant for gaming in Windows. They decide to test drive it in both Linux and Windows, while finding some surprising results in the end.

Hitachi was the first company to release a one terabyte hard drive, and they've sent us the DeskStar 7K1000 model for review. Our benchmarks show it performing better in Linux than Windows!

The Radeon HD3870 Ultimate edition features a passively-cooled heatsink, making for an excellent video card in silent environments such as home theater PCs and desktop gaming rigs.

There’s a system that's on my self, and I've come to realize that I no longer remember the password for this machine. Rather than reinstall the system, I used a much easier method utilizing chroot.

CrossFire isn't yet supported in Linux, but will a pair of CrossFire-certified DDR2 RAM benefit a Linux system in gaming or multimedia use? BIOSLEVEL.com benchmarks the RAM and delivers their opinion.

BIOSLEVEL.com looks at ThermalTake's new BlacX HD dock that allows for easy plug-and-play usage with any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drive. Benchmarks in this review were purely done in Linux.

Asus sent BIOSLEVEL.com their latest AMD-based barebone. BIOSLEVEL.com puts it through several benchmarks and the outlook looks good for Linux support.

BIOSLEVEL.com looks at one of the latest USB 5.1 headsets in both Windows and Linux. Are the latest round of gaming headsets ready for Linux usage?

BIOSLEVEL.com reviews Sapphire's take on AMD's new 780G chipset. The board proves to be surprisingly powerful in Linux, particularly the onboard ATI graphics.

BIOSLEVEL.com looks at Sapphire’s Radeon HD3870 TOXIC edition videocard, and benchmarks it under both Linux and Windows. Is it enough to beat nVidia’s 8800GTX?

BIOSLEVEL looks at a SATA/SAS backplane that fits in a single 5.25" drive bay and can hold up to four 2.5" hard drives in hot swap trays. The backplane supports a 3Gbps transfer rate, and utilizes two 40mm fans in the rear to cool the drives.

The XO is the laptop produced by the One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) headed by Mr. Nicholas Negroponte with a goal to provide every child a laptop. Colin Dean was one of the first to participate in G1G1, and this is his review of it.

An in-depth review of the Ontario Linux Fest 2007 that was held on October 13th. From maddog, to the Open Format Wars, and wrapping up with new technologies such as OLPC and the OpenMoko Project.

Looking at uShare and discussing an rc-script for Gentoo to automate service. uShare can share media with UPnP devices such as game consoles. This article is beginning of a series on how to package the application for Gentoo's Portage.

uShare is an UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients. We discovered uShare as an way of connecting Microsoft's XBox360 to a Linux PC.

With Solid-State Drives (SSD) on the verge of mass consumer adoption, we're left wondering what kind of performance we're going to see from these drives. We already know SSD's require less power than drives with moving parts, but what kind of performance gains will we see? To get an idea, we took one the faster drives on the market, the OCZ Rally2, and ran it through our benchmarking process. To make things more interesting (and see how much performance we could squeeze from the technology, we're using two drives later in this article to use the drives in a RAID0 configuration.