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From Karmic to Lucid: Distribution Update Screenshots
Submitted by eco2geek on Wednesday 5th of May 2010 10:49:33 AM Filed under
In line with its newbie-friendly tradition of providing a way to do everything via a graphical user interface, Ubuntu provides a way to do a distribution upgrade by clicking a button at the top of the Update Manager. Since version 10.04 was released on April 29, it was once again time to see how well the upgrade went. Here are screenshots of the entire process.
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Freshly Squeezed Debian: Installing from Live DVD
Submitted by eco2geek on Tuesday 20th of April 2010 09:26:03 AM Filed under
Last month, the Debian Live Project released live CD and DVD images of the next version of Debian, codenamed "Squeeze." They included an installer that uses the live filesystem rather than packages, so it has the advantages of being fast and allowing you to preview on the live media, what you eventually get on your hard drive. This may not seem like a big deal, since most modern Linux distributions use this installation method, but it's still fairly new for Debian. I downloaded and installed the 64-bit GNOME version.
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Secret Future Ubuntu User Interface Plans Revealed!
Submitted by eco2geek on Saturday 27th of March 2010 07:46:36 PM Filed under
Mark Shuttleworth recently said that "moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely." But what "innovative options" might he be referring to? To find out, we contacted a member of Ubuntu's design team, Drew A. Gooey-Aubergine, who gave us an exclusive look at what innovative new features Ubuntu users might see on the right-hand side of their windows in future releases.
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Hitch your wagon to a lizard: dist-upgrading openSUSE
Submitted by eco2geek on Sunday 15th of November 2009 05:30:17 PM Filed under
For the first time, openSUSE now officially supports a "dist-upgrade" feature, similar to Debian's. Which is to say, if you've got openSUSE 11.1 installed, you should be able to upgrade to openSUSE 11.2 by updating your list of software repositories to point to providers of software for openSUSE 11.2, doing a distribution upgrade via the Internet, and have a reasonable chance of success.
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The Ubuntu 1-click dist-upgrade (well, almost)
Submitted by eco2geek on Wednesday 1st of July 2009 04:52:04 AM Filed under
I was curious to try Ubuntu's offer of a "one-click upgrade" from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP Pavilion zd7000 laptop. I was impressed with how easy it was.
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Vector Linux 5.9: Light, fast Slackware-based distro
Submitted by eco2geek on Wednesday 13th of February 2008 01:15:49 PM Filed under
Vector Linux 5.9, released in late December of last year, is a Slackware 12.0-based distribution that uses Xfce 4.4.2 as its default user interface. Generally speaking, Xfce requires less horsepower than other UIs, like GNOME and KDE, and so Vector Linux bills itself as an excellent operating system to install on older, lower-powered computers. I've been using it for the past two weeks, and like what I see.
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KDE 4.0: Everything that has an end, has a beginning
Submitted by eco2geek on Friday 18th of January 2008 03:15:59 PM Filed under
By now, every Linux user's heard of KDE 4.0, and the controversy surrounding its release. Here's one partisan KDE user's take on it — with screenshots.
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openSUSE 10.3 in review: A solid Linux desktop
Submitted by eco2geek on Friday 12th of October 2007 08:06:17 PM Filed under
openSUSE is a popular German Linux distribution that Distrowatch.com lists as one of the "top ten." Version 10.3 was released on October 4th. Underneath its new green artwork, the new version's improvements include cutting down the time it takes to reach the graphical login screen; speeding up and streamlining its package management utility; and making it easier for users to install software using a new "one-click install" process. There's a lot to like here.
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Beta Review: Kanotix 2007 "Thorhammer" RC5B
Submitted by eco2geek on Friday 7th of September 2007 07:50:53 AM Filed under
The last Kanotix release (based on Debian Sid) came out in October, 2006. Shortly thereafter, a Kanotix co-developer (and many of Kanotix's other developers) left the project, mainly due to a disagreement over whether Kanotix should be based on Sid (Debian's unstable branch) or something less volatile, like Etch (Debian's current stable branch) or Ubuntu. Kanotix's founder now has a new, Etch-based version of Kanotix in development, code-named "Thorhammer."
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Sidux 2007-03.1 "Gaia": A closer look
Submitted by eco2geek on Thursday 23rd of August 2007 08:29:52 PM Filed under
Unless you're able to deal with such esoteric problems as diagnosing a buggy post-install script, or figuring out how to deal with a major change in the directory structure of X.org, you might occasionally find running a Debian Sid-based system to be more than you can handle. And that's where Sidux comes in. Sidux's goal is to allow mere mortals the ability to run Debian Sid on the desktop, in order to take advantage of the latest Debian software available. Its development team helps guide its users through the occasional bumps in Sid, via IRC and its user forum. Another goal is to offer a consistent release cycle. Sidux comes with a variety of "convenience scripts" and utilities you won't find in Debian proper, that make it easier to do such things as administer your system and install proprietary software.
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Slackware 12: The anti-'buntu
Submitted by eco2geek on Sunday 8th of July 2007 06:58:17 AM Filed under
Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution; its first version came out in 1993. Version 12 was recently released. As its Wikipedia entry notes, it's got a reputation for sacrificing ease-of-use (in terms of configuration and package management tools provided by the distribution) in favor of letting the end user configure the system and its software by herself.
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Alternative GUIs: GoblinX
Submitted by eco2geek on Sunday 17th of June 2007 04:27:15 AM Filed under
GoblinX is a live Linux distribution based on Slackware 11, written by a Brazillian developer who goes by the pseudonym Grobsch. It comes with five different window managers/GUIs, and uses custom artwork for each of them that's quite unlike anything you've seen before.
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Alternative GUIs: SymphonyOS
Submitted by eco2geek on Saturday 9th of June 2007 09:38:53 PM Filed under
We're all familiar with the "big two" desktops for Linux -- KDE and GNOME. Of course, there are many more to choose from. If you asked a group of Linux users, "Which one is best?", the ensuing debate would likely take on religious overtones. Some would even argue that a desktop like KDE is too hard for newbies to use. Still, it's a safe bet that most Linux users don't stray too far away from those "big two," KDE and GNOME. So it's especially interesting to look at some innovative alternatives.
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Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 2)
Submitted by eco2geek on Saturday 2nd of June 2007 05:10:06 AM Filed under
Part 2 of the Fedora 7 "Moonshine" review.
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Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)
Submitted by eco2geek on Saturday 2nd of June 2007 04:49:41 AM Filed under
Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On the one hand, it's hugely popular. On the other hand, these days, there seems to be an emphasis on being user-friendly (think "Ubuntu"). But Fedora's creators have consciously limited what it can do out of the box.
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Blue Belle: Running PCLinuxOS Test 4
Submitted by eco2geek on Saturday 28th of April 2007 03:05:28 PM Filed under
PCLinuxOS is an up-and-coming distribution that recently made it into Distrowatch.com's list of Top Ten Distributions. I installed PCLinuxOS Test 4 on a 10 GB partition (with a separate 1 GB /home partition) on an AMD Athlon 2600+ with 640 MB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE graphics card. This hardware is no great shakes nowadays, but it's plenty fast enough to run PCLinuxOS with all the bells and whistles.
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Linux Mint "Bianca" KDE Edition Beta 020: A Small Review
Submitted by eco2geek on Friday 6th of April 2007 08:37:51 AM Filed under
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distro whose goal in life, per its website, "is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." The developers have released both GNOME-based and KDE-based versions in the past, and their latest version, v2.2 "Bianca," is already final in its GNOME incarnation.
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The Lazy Guide to Installing Knoppix on a USB Key
Submitted by eco2geek on Wednesday 28th of March 2007 08:30:04 AM Filed under
Knoppix, the famous live Linux CD that practically started the live CD trend, needs no introduction to most people. One of the things that's so great about it is that you can take it with you and boot to a familiar Linux environment on almost any modern computer, without touching the OS that's already installed on it.
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Installing openSUSE 10.2 on a Compaq laptop (Part 2)
Submitted by eco2geek on Thursday 21st of December 2006 07:51:38 AM Filed under
In part 1, openSUSE got installed and configured on a Compaq Presario V2000 with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M PCIE graphics chipset and a 32-bit CPU. Now it's time to go for the bling.
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Installing openSUSE 10.2 on a Compaq laptop (Part 1)
Submitted by eco2geek on Wednesday 20th of December 2006 02:48:57 AM Filed under
My favorite distro faces an uncertain future, so I decided to install openSUSE 10.2 over it on my Compac Presario V2000. Also because... OK, I'll come clean: the real reason was for the eye candy. I wanted Beryl, with the cube, the wobbly windows, the "magic lantern" window minimizing effects, rain, snow -- you know, Eye Candy.
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