Comments on: SolusOS 1.2 Eveline Review http://gnuman.com/solusos-1-2-eveline-review/ Linux in the home Fri, 17 May 2013 22:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Links 24/9/2012: New Distros, GNOM 3.7 is Coming | Techrights http://gnuman.com/solusos-1-2-eveline-review/#comment-4480 Links 24/9/2012: New Distros, GNOM 3.7 is Coming | Techrights Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:25:38 +0000 http://gnuman.com/?p=492#comment-4480 [...] SolusOS 1.2 Eveline Review SolusOS is a lightweight distribution which uses Gnome 2 as its desktop interface and it is geared towards novice Linux users or those who do not need a heavy distribution. [...]

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]]> By: Ildefonso Giron http://gnuman.com/solusos-1-2-eveline-review/#comment-4476 Ildefonso Giron Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:47:46 +0000 http://gnuman.com/?p=492#comment-4476 I recently bought a Lenovo Z475 and I installed Debian 6 Squeeze, which I have been using for a lifetime. After almost a week of trying hard, I could not install appropriate drivers for video and audio, neither free or proprietary. Given that I was getting ready for a business trip with no time left, I resourced to install SolusOS 1.2, after giving a try to the Live DVD. As expected, all my hardware worked ok.

Nevertheless, I am not fully satisfied with this distro’s behaviour. Some things are really painfull. Here’s a brief list of things I have found.

- USB flash memories auto-disconnect after a few seconds. And I have a variety of them, so it cannot be attributed to said USB’s make or model. Same thing with network printers. Prior to sending a job to a network printer, I have to restart CUPS. Otherwise, network printers are not available. I also am not able to mount NFS shares.

- I use VIM as my main development tool and it behaves differently than in my other machines, which is really annoying.

- Strangely enough is the fact that I cannot watch movies or video clips, be it in DVD or file format –any format–. VLC and XINE complain that they are not able to find suitable audio/video adaptors. On the other hand, I can watch videos in Youtube and other sites.

Four cores and 8GB of ram were the main attractives of getting this machine, but at its current state it is hardly what I expected.

Regards.

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