Desktop Linux Reviews

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 [...]

No writer is completely without bias. I do the best I can to be even-handed and objective when reviewing a distribution. I have to admit though that I’ve been far too biased toward covering Gnome-based distributions and haven’t nearly covered as many KDE-based counterparts. I’ll be trying in the future to have a more balanced [...]

Just wanted to let everybody know that the discussion forum is now up. Here’s the link: Desktop Linux Reviews Forum Please feel free to drop by and chit chat about Linux or whatever. Edit: You need to register for the forum (registration takes about 10 seconds). Different database than the blog comments. Sorry.

When I started my recent Linux distro review jihad back on ExtremeTech, one of the first ones I did was Linux Mint 6. I hadn’t been paying attention to Linux Mint’s development cycle or I probably would have waited because not too long after that review was done, Linux Mint 7 was released. And so [...]

It’s been ages since I last did a review of Fedora. I had planned to do one of Fedora 11 at ExtremeTech but I couldn’t get the beta to install properly in VMWare (my preferred tool for doing Linux distro reviews). Fortunately the final release is in much better shape and I was able to finally do this review.

With dramatic events in Iran moving at light speed, I thought it might be interesting to kick off the new blog with a look at Parsix Linux. Parsix Linux is a Gnome-centric distribution created in Iran and based on KANOTIX and Debian. I downloaded it a while back but never quite had time to get [...]

Welcome to the Desktop Linux Reviews Blog! I’m starting this blog to continue on with the Linux distribution reviews I did back when I worked for ExtremeTech. Linux is a bit of an addiction on my part, it’s in my blood. So I wanted to have a place to continue writing about it. One difference [...]