Desktop Linux Reviews

Sometimes great minds think alike, there’s just no doubt about it. When I heard of the release of CrunchBang Linux I knew I had to do a review of it here on DLR. And when I got up this morning I noticed that there was a post by Brian Masinick in Request A Review asking [...]

I got another review request recently, this time for Mandriva Linux. So I snagged a copy of Mandriva Linux One (a free download) and thought I’d give it a whirl. I picked the KDE version as I wanted to spend more time playing with KDE.
Mandriva Linux comes in a number of different versions:
Mandriva Linux Free [...]

Lately I’ve been looking at different distributions but there’s another angle of desktop Linux that bears looking at from time to time too: gaming. Yes, there actually are Linux gamers out there and, despite some shortcomings, it is quite possible to play some games on your Linux system. Usually people would do it by installing [...]

They say that good things come in small packages and so it is with Tiny Core Linux, a diminutive but powerful distribution. TCL weighs in at an incredibly petite 11MB when you download it. Yes, it really is that tiny. Tiny Core Linux is based on Busybox, the Linux 2.6 kernel, JWM, Fltk and Tiny [...]

As you have probably noticed, there’s a Request A Review page up on this blog and one of the first suggestions was made by Bill Julian. Bill wanted to read a review of Knoppix 6.0.1. In case you aren’t familiar with it, Knoppix is a Debian-based Live CD version of Linux. You can get it on [...]