http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Distro Reviews Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 01:03:17 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 01:03:17 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-GoblinX-2-6-79936.shtml 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 succeeded to insert no more than five (yes, that'... (read more)]]> Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:06:00 GMT Softpedia News - Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-GoblinX-2-6-79936.shtml Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-GoblinX-2-6-79936.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-Foresight-Linux-74527.shtml 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 to a DEB based Linux distribution. The following review has b... (read more)]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:27:00 GMT Softpedia News - Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-Foresight-Linux-74527.shtml Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Review-Foresight-Linux-74527.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Living-With-Daryna-for-One-Week-72641.shtml 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 with the following specs:

- ... (read more)]]> Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:56:00 GMT Softpedia News - Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Living-With-Daryna-for-One-Week-72641.shtml Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/Living-With-Daryna-for-One-Week-72641.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) http://news.softpedia.com/news/BeaFanatIX-Review-55820.shtml 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, changed some stuff, and put everything back on the CD. ... (read more)]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 17:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/BeaFanatIX-Review-55820.shtml Distro Reviews http://news.softpedia.com/news/BeaFanatIX-Review-55820.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)