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.
Archive of 'Reviews'
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.
EnGarde — Secure Linux Server
[ Tuesday, 7 August 2007, riklaunim ]
This will be an unusual review, due to the fact that the distribution under review doesn’t have an X server, and you don’t really need to login on it to work… This review is about the just released EnGarde Secure Server 3.0.16 developed by Guardian Digital company with the help of the community. About EnGarde [...]
PCLinuxOS 2007 — simple and elegant
[ Friday, 20 July 2007, wiezyr ]
PCLinuxOS (PCLOS) is one of many GNU/Linux systems belonging to the family of Desktop distributions. Its aim is to be a friendly and simple to use operating system. It was forked from Mandrake Linux (Mandriva at present) in 2003. It’s now a fully independent distro, although it does take advantage of a few of Mandriva’s technologies.
Pardus 2007.2 — new cat in town
[ Wednesday, 18 July 2007, riklaunim ]
I’ve already written two Pardus reviews — 2007 Beta 2 and 2007.1. So it’s time for a review of 2007.2 Caracal release. In this article I will focus on the key changes and my personal thoughts concerning this interesting distribution.
Mandriva 2007.1 Spring Review
[ Friday, 22 June 2007, paulina ]
This April Mandriva presented its new distribution called Spring. Despite the fact that it is “only” 2007.1 it has changed a lot since 2007.0. Changes can be seen everywhere — starting from installation through chosen applications till the 3D desktops.
Yet Another Feisty Review
[ Tuesday, 19 June 2007, adz ]
Feisty Fawn isn’t a revolutionary release. We should rather talk about evolution but with well defined direction. Ubuntu developers have surely a certain vision they adhere to and some positive results are shown to us in Feisty Fawn.
MacBook and Linux: Beauty and the Beast
[ Sunday, 17 June 2007, riklaunim ]
MacBook and MacBook Pro are the new powerful laptops from Apple that use Intel processors instead of PowerPC ones. When you buy a MacBook you get OS X Tiger pre-installed on it. But, you can still install GNU/Linux on this beautiful box. If you want to know how, read on the article. MacBooks and other [...]