Review Archive

  • Sidux 2010-01: Rolling Release KDE Goodness

    Sidux 2010-01: Rolling Release KDE Goodness

    I have always had a thing for distributions with KDE, and checking out how all the leading distributions choose to implement it. My latest foray into the world of KDE distro’s this time brings me to Sidux, which is a rolling distribution based on Debian...

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  • Linux Mint 9: Fast, Stable, and Beautiful

    Linux Mint 9: Fast, Stable, and Beautiful

    It’s been a long time since I last looked at Mint, and a lot has changed since. After Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released, I thought I would take a look at Linux Mint 9 “Isadora” to see what they are doing with the latest Ubuntu...

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  • Fedora 12: One Major Step in the Right Direction

    Fedora 12: One Major Step in the Right Direction

    Fedora 11, released just under six months ago, was a disaster. I couldn’t get it to install on my system no matter which method I tried, and due to my strict zero tolerance policy for broken installers, Fedora 11 recieved a score of 0/5 on...

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  • KDE 4.3: Stable, Fast, but Still Not Perfect

    KDE 4.3: Stable, Fast, but Still Not Perfect

    It’s hard to believe that six months has passed since the release of KDE 4.2. It seems as though time is flying by and it was only just yesterday when KDE 4.0 was released and stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the Linux...

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  • Zenwalk 6.0: Not Quite Ready

    Zenwalk 6.0: Not Quite Ready

    In this Ubuntu world, distributions such as Zenwalk go relatively unnoticed, yet offer great features to those that know about them. Originally based on Slackware, Zenwalk has always dared to be different, using the XFCE desktop rather than the more well known GNOME and KDE...

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