Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software as Polish FLOSS foundation together with school headmasters, supported by local authorities organize a series of lectures on free software in education. PolishLinux.org has a report — summary of the first 3 months of the campaign.
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Ubuntu Linux vs Windows Vista: The Desktop Battle
[ Sunday, 2 December 2007, michuk ]
It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years. This comparison is based on my experience with both systems during the last couple [...]
APT-build — optimize your Debian!
[ Friday, 23 November 2007, P2O2 ]
Certainly most of the Linux users would like to have their systems fully optimized for their rigs but do not have the stamina or enough knowledge to play with the Gentoo installation paradigm. But here comes the rescue — an apt-build goody available under every distro armed with the big gun - APT package manager.
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Mandriva Linux 2008 — the worst/best release
[ Wednesday, 14 November 2007, paulina ]
Each new release of Mandriva is called by its developers “the best of all editions”. We had the same situation with Mandriva Linux 2008. But is this really true? Hardly so.
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Archlinux tools: AUR
[ Sunday, 4 November 2007, mikrobart ]
You already know Pacman, the Archlinux software manager. Now it’s time to meet AUR and yaourt, the extra tools that can bring a fistful of apps on your desktop within just a few console commands. This article is part of the “Arch tools” series on polishlinux.org.
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Compare PCLinuxOS with any distribution!
[ Sunday, 28 October 2007, michuk ]
We’re glad to inform that PCLinuxOS — a popular Linux flavor — found its place to the PolishLinux distribution comparator. This is mainly thanks to our wiki contributors who prepared a detailed description of this distro at PolishLinux wiki.
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Archlinux tools: Pacman
[ Friday, 26 October 2007, mikrobart ]
We are starting a short series of articles aiming to describe the key administration tools and packages used in Archlinux distribution. Today we are taking a closer look at Pacman — the Arch’s package manager of choice.
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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon: Critical review
[ Thursday, 18 October 2007, michuk ]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released today. In short: it did not disappoint me. The new Ubuntu is more polished, more professional and in general, better than the previous one, which was already a great OS. Minor glitches? Present, as always.
