Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Ubuntu based distribution that uses Englightenment as its desktop manager. It is geared for those who have older hardware or who prefer lighter desktops compared to the heavier GNOME or KDE.
Bodhi comes as an installable LiveCD which when first started, is quite similar to that of Ubuntu’s startup so if you’ve used Ubuntu before, you’ll feel well at home. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Netrunner is a KUbuntu based LiveDVD distribution running KDE 4.7.4 and is available in both 32 and 64 bit flavors. It takes the best of Kubuntu and adds a bit of their touch to the programs being offered. Netrunner is a distribution based for novice users of Linux.
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Ubuntu has been a “breakthrough” in the world of Linux. There never really has been a distribution that has received recognition like Ubuntu has when it comes to people wanting to try Linux for the very first time. People knew Windows and sorta knew Mac OS but with Ubuntu, the third player in the game is finally getting recognition.
Let me start off by indicating that this book is not geared towards novice users, unless you are the kind of person who wants to tinker at first and then learn a whole lot about Linux in general through the use of Ubuntu. There are people who want to know how terminal works and get down to the nitty gritty and see the full potential of Linux. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Sabayon 8 XFCE is a Gentoo based distribution that comes with XFCE desktop version 4.8 and makes Gentoo a whole lot easier. Gentoo Linux is a more advanced based distribution that has been around a long time which is focused more on advanced users with compiling your own packages (programs) in order to run.
Sabayon, takes a different approach and takes the hard part out of Gentoo and makes it easy with the latest version in Sabayon 8. [Read the rest of this entry...]
PCLinuxOS (PCLOS) for short is one of the few popular distributions out there that uses a fork of Mandriva as its base while others are based on some sort of variant of Debian. PCLOS uses KDE 4.6.5 as its desktop environment and is available for both 32bit and 64 bit systems. As with a lot of distributions, PCLOS comes as an installable Live environment so you can try it before you commit to installing it on your system. [Read the rest of this entry...]
