Review: Dream Linux 3.0
In my regular search for Linux distributions that can be used easily by new users, I've found a number that stand up to the test, and a lot of others that don't. Well, shortly after hearing about Dream Linux, I was intrigued by it, if for no other reason than it's name. Dream Linux hails out of the wonderful and balmy country of Brazil. Now some might say, "Brazil? There's no programmers down there! That's all jungle!" If you thought that, you'd be wrong. But let's skip the symantics and the stereotypes, and dig into this interesting little Linux distro to see what it's all about. Will we find a dream, or a scary nightmare?
Dream Linux is a unique distribution in the fact that few other distributions ship with more than one window manager. Most choose just one window manager and stick with it. If you want something different, you'll need to install it yourself. In Dream Linux, the first thing you're greeted with when you boot the live cd is the choice between booting into Gnome, or XFCE. Overall though, the way both are setup, it's more a question of preference than anything, since there's very little visual difference between the two.
Same theme, same eyecandy, same dock, and pretty much the same everything else. Only when you really get down into the guts of either window manager do you see any defining differences. Normally XFCE and Gnome aren't that similar or close in appearence. But they are here. Oddly, the choice in layouts between the two is extremely MacOSX like. In fact, there's a few times you might forget you're using Linux if you're not careful.
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