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Review: GoblinX 2.6

1st of March 2008 12:06 GMT

Version 2.6 of GoblinX, the Slackware-based Live CD Linux distribution, was released 10 days ago, and it was a good opportunity for me to take it for an in-depth testdrive.What impressed me the most, is the fact that the developer (yes a single man is behind this distribution), Flavio de Oliveira a.k.a Grobsch, has s...

Review: Foresight Linux

20th of December 2007 08:27 GMT

I am not a fan of RPM based Linux distributions anymore. However, my Linux experience started 7-8 years ago with Red Hat 6.2, then Red Hat 7, 8, 9, Mandriva 9.2, SUSE 9 and Fedora 3. I've settled on Fedora for two years, until Ubuntu (6.10 was the version at that time) gave me enough reasons to make the switch ...

Living With Daryna for One Week

3rd of December 2007 13:56 GMT

Ok, ok... I know it's a little too late for a review of Linux Mint 4.0 (codename Daryna), but I was "dating" her sisters and I thought: "Why not give Daryna a chance, too?".This review has been written during an entire week, starting the 26th and ending the 30th of November. I tested Linux Mint 4.0 on a computer...

BeaFanatIX Review

28th of May 2007 13:11 GMT

Some of you have probably heard a few years ago about a project called BeatrIX - a small GNU/Linux LiveCD distribution, which was pretty popular at that time. Unfortunately, the BeatrIX project has been discontinued since 2005.The BeaFanatIX project started as a remaster of BeatrIX. The team extracted BeatrIX, change...