Category Archives: Distro reviews
REVIEW: Sabayon 6 (Xfce) and a look at my migration away from Gnome.
It’s no secret that Gnome 3 (and Gnome-shell) are not being well received by everyone. Canonical is going with its Unity and for many other Gnome users, the future is Gnome-shell. … Continue reading
A look at: MikeOS 4.1.1 – A barebones OS written totally in Assembly.
With so many projects in the world of Tech, its very easy to spend time merely focusing on the most common apps/distros, be it Firefox, Chromium, Ubuntu, Fedora or discussions … Continue reading
A look at: ArtistX (1.1) – LiveCD (3.6GB)
Ubuntu is probably the most common for distro’s to derive from, the number of Ubuntu variants is staggering and whilst many can share aspects rendering them virtually identical, the one … Continue reading
Mageia 1 – A new distro and a new DE experience for me.
In 2008 I tried a well known distro called Mandriva, even back then the bar was set pretty high for what you could expect out of the box from Linux. … Continue reading
Looking at 11.04 Natty/Unity – Good or bad?
Theres been a 1001 different reviews of Ubuntu 11.04, so I hope to put a little bit of a different spin on the review. Theres been much criticism regarding the … Continue reading
REVIEW: GhostBSD 2.0 (LiveCD)
I would expect it’s a welcome release for established GhostBSD users but new users may find that it’s neither polished or packaged as fully as they would like. Its been a while since I … Continue reading
The perfect distro for the Acer Aspire One?
Around June 2009 I purchased a Linux Acer Aspire One (Linpus Linux) and a pay as you go broadband dongle. The idea was, whilst I was away on holiday I could … Continue reading
Puppy Arcade 9 – New release!
Gaming not what it used to be? Bored by the plethora of 3rd person shooters which seem to dominate the games market? Well there has been no reason to say … Continue reading
REVIEW: Peppermint – Cloud/Lightweight distro & Considering the cloud?
Linux and its diverse range of distributions are developing at a very fast pace. Nearly every day on Distrowatch I see something new and whilst I would like to take … Continue reading
Wolvix 2.0.0 beta Build 56
Its been a long time. The last time I reported on Wolvix was in July 09 where the distro received praise (and became my distro of choice). After that date … Continue reading
