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new release of Redhat-sponsored Fedora is always in the headlines of
the Linux world as it is one of those distributions that push Linux
forward by introducing exciting new features. Fedora has always been
something like a test platform for Redhat's commercial product, the
Enterprise Desktop/Server, however recently we have seen some changes
suggesting that Fedora has decided to mature and try to become a good
alternative for the average Linux desktop user. I have used Fedora 7
for about 4 months myself until I moved over to Arch Linux so in this
review I will try to point out what has been improved other the older
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Every
new release of openSUSE is
always welcomed with great interest from the Linux community as it is
without any doubt one of the leading distributions. And it is a leading
distribution as besides introducing exiting new technologies and
presenting a polished Linux environment, it also has a huge user base,
probably second only to Ubuntu.
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The first SUSE product I tried was
9.0, but besides actually buying the boxed version I wasn't able to use
it as it didn't recognize my dial-up modem, and of course a PC without
Internet (even with my poor dial up connection at the moment) is not
something
you can really live with when Windows is only a reboot away. Later I
got broadband and with it SUSE 9.3 which I used for a few months before
moving to Ubuntu. After 9.3 Novell (who had acquired Suse in the
meantime) decided to rename the project to openSUSE, probably aiming to
highlight the change from the commercial SUSE product to a large scale
open source project - in the example of Debian - which was created to
develop openSuse.
The innovations openSUSE and Novell have brought
to the Linux world since then are many, however I will
stick to what is offered with openSUSE 10.3, especially in the desktop
user area. This review was delayed for about a week as I decided to
use openSUSE
a bit more before I wrote my thoughts, attempting to be as fair as
possible since when I first downloaded and installed 10.3 there was not
even a release announcement out so there could be some small problems
because the distro was too new.
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Welcome
to this week's Linux distribution review! As you have probably already
noticed I have decided to try and post at least one review per week in
my blog. I decided to do so, as by simply browsing the net I
could
see that most reviews are pretty bad, either because they are written
by people with very small experience with Linux, therefore judging a
distro with wrong criteria or by experienced and respected writers who
however fail to understand what the average user wants from a distro
and give more detail elsewhere. So I hope that in my reviews
you will be able to find some good values and strong points that will
help you decide whether to try a distro or not.
This review is about
the all new Linux Mint 3.1, codenamed "Celena". Mint is based on Ubuntu
(in this version Ubuntu 7.04) and is compatible with its repositories,
meaning that you get access to the huge Ubuntu repository which
contains over 10.000 programs. But lets see everything in detail.
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Foresight Linux is a relatively new distribution based on rPath Linux
and featuring the latest Gnome and freedesktop.org desktop. This review
of Foresight's latest version, 1.4, will attempt to show the strengths
of this distro and why not, give you a reason to try it next time you
go distro hopping!
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This is the very first review I 'll be writing for my blog. I decided
to start with a Linux distribution review and I choose Arch Linux (www.archlinux.org).
The reason I didn't write an article for a more well known distribution
(or distro as Linux users call it) like Ubuntu or openSUSE is that
besides the fact that dozens of reviews for those exist already, I
happen to believe that Arch is an excellent flavor of Linux that hasn't
got the share of publicity and attention if deserves from the community
yet.
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Its been quite some time now that I wanted to start a weblog, publishing my thoughts about various matters, mostly technology and computer related. I was wondering if I should start a personal blog like most people do, but to be honest this has become something like a "trend" in our times that I turned that idea down. However shortly afterwards I thought that my personal blabbing could actually interest some DVD-Guides.com readers! That, combined with the fact that this site is my first and older project (hey we have been 4 years online!) made me take the decision to host this blog here.
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