Following on from Part One of this series, I now have Debian Etch installed. I have spent most of today tweaking it to act the way I want. And here is an obligatory screenshot: Now, it will strike the more observant/astute of you that this desktop is almost exactly the same as my Slackware desktop. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Distro Reviews category.
Part 1
I have very much come to terms with the fact that I am a Slacker. There really are no two ways about it. Since late 2002, I have changed distros fairly regularly (although I ran RedHat 8 and 9 because I liked them) to see if there’s anything else out there, but I return to [...]
Puppy Linux
In a bid to actually fill this blog with more than just ramblings, I’ve begun reviewing distros that catch my eye. These are not necessarily mainstream distros – everyone does those – but just interesting distros. At least, interesting to me. The latest in the series is Puppy Linux. I ran version 2.01r2. Puppy is [...]
React OS
Have you come across React OS? It aims to be an open source version of Microsoft Windows – which sounds like a contradiction in terms until you take a look at it. Let’s let the site tell us a little about it: The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by [...]
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
As recently blogged by me, I installed Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to my laptop so that I could get around Fedora issues I was having and have a workable desktop. And here is my trip report. I installed the latest version, 6.06, and expected to have loads of fun reconfiguring and getting it to work. [...]
A Windows User Reviews Desktop Linux
No, not me LXer.com posted a story (or a link to one) from a reviewer who had been heavily criticised for one of his reviews (story is here). One of the “talkback” entries was from a blogger who had a very similar experience. Now, I don’t want to go into a rant about how every [...]
