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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

September 25, 2011 · 26 Comments

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

July 9, 2011 · 4 Comments

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

March 28, 2011 · 16 Comments

REVIEW: Salix 13.1-rc1 (Live LXDE)

Salix, a slackware distro, is one I’ve looked at previously on Openbytes.  It has a history with Zenwalk, but not in just the fact that they are two Slackware offerings, … Continue reading

September 12, 2010 · 2 Comments

NewsBytes – Thursday 2nd September 2010

uTorrent for Linux nearly here! I reported a few months back that due to popular demand (so much for an alleged 0.8% Linux usage) the makers of uTorrent announced that … Continue reading

September 2, 2010 · 2 Comments

Netrunner 2 – Blacklight – A new release!

Regular readers to Openbytes may remember the coverage we gave to Netrunner.   The first release “Albedo” impressed with its speed and its removal of Mono, which for some is … Continue reading

July 4, 2010 · 15 Comments

Grahame Morrison – No feuds on his watch?

I read an interesting article by Grahame Morrison entitled “Feuds and rivalries are damaging open source” (where all the quotes are taken from) which I start (and not beat around the … Continue reading

May 15, 2010 · 13 Comments

LottaNZB 0.5.3 (HellaNZB frontend) & The future of the binary newsgroups?

I wrote about Klibido quite a while ago and whilst its a KDE app (being run in a Gnome environment on my rig) I have to say that I found … Continue reading

April 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

Kahel OS (version 12-25-09) (Gnome)

The first distro I am looking at for the new year is Kahel OS, a distro based on Arch and hailing from the Philipines, it makes some bold statements and … Continue reading

January 3, 2010 · 27 Comments

Ubuntu Karmic is the venue for Gnome V KDE!

Ladies and gentlemen! In the blue corner weighing in at 9.10 is KDE and in the red corner also weighing in at 9.10 is Gnome..”For the thousands in attendance and … Continue reading

November 17, 2009 · 44 Comments
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