Minecraft, the world building game from independent developer Mojang, finally came out of a lengthy beta last week. It's difficult to adequately review a game that has been playable for so long—sales passed four million recently—but this is an important game, not least because it demonstrates the continued health of the PC as a gaming platform. Read on for our thoughts on Minecraft 1.0.

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If you are in the IT field, you have no doubt heard a lot of great things about ZFS, the file system originally introduced by Sun in 2004.  After doing quite a bit of research we decided to embark on a build of a ZFS storage platform that we could use to replace our existing SAN infrastructure at our hosting company.  We will go in depth talking about how ZFS works, what components we chose for our build, and the performance that we were able to achieve compared to our legacy Promise iSCSI SAN.  Read on to find out more about what we encountered and what we ended up with.

Do you have a growing family at home slowly eating away at your bandwidth? Maybe you're a web surfing fanatic looking for a little more speed? If you answered yes to either, a caching proxy is for you. This simple addition to your home network can provide you with additional bandwidth by reducing common internet bandwidth usage. Normally these types of proxies are found in the commercial world, but they're just as useful at home.

So what is a caching proxy server? The concept is pretty simple: when a request is made to a website, that content is then saved locally on the local caching proxy server. When another request for the same data is made by any machine on your network, that data is retrieved from your local proxy rather than the internet. The content can be anything from regular website content to a file you downloaded. For those with multiple computers in a single household, the bandwidth savings really adds up with patches and multi computer driver updates. If you've got some spare hardware available and are interested in boosting internet performance—and in getting your hands dirty with Linux—this article is for you.

Can you actually play Windows games on Linux? That's what we seek to find out. Talk about opening a can of worms!

After a long delay, it's time to revist Linux. To start things off, we look at at Ubuntu 8.04, the latest Long Term Stable release of the popular operating system from Canonical

We got our hands on some of the new dual core processors from AMD and Intel and put them in a high performance Linux rig was exactly what the doctor ordered.

We received a brand new 2.1GHz Dothan with a desktop motherboard and put them through their paces against the Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 processors.

NVIDIA and ATI have warmed up to the idea of Linux gamers, but are the new driver wars enough to make them competitive?

Interested in turning a few extra XBOXes into a modular render farm? Maybe just a $200 PC for surfing the web? There is quite a bit of life left in those old XBOXes!

Today, we take a look at the biggest Linux game to date, how it performs on various hardware configurations and how it compares to its Windows counterpart.

We continue to take our testing to the edge with Linux GPU benchmarks. You saw the release of AnandTech's benchmark utility last week; now see it in action.

Can we build a better mousetrap? Delve into the minds of AT developers working to develop clearer, concise benchmarks. It all starts with some Linux...

We have seen several server processors operating on Linux, but what about the best desktop offerings from AMD and Intel? We put five high end processors to the test!