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Over on Diaspora – A collection of my musings

I often write musings on Diaspora, in themselves not substantial enough for an article here, however they are more than a simple dent or tweet.  I present a selection of … Continue reading

October 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

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

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

June 6, 2011 · 11 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

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

Kubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala

I run several distro’s and have good reasons for doing so.  My most recent version of Ubuntu that is left on one of my rigs is a heavily modified 8.04LTS. … Continue reading

October 30, 2009 · 9 Comments
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