Desktop Linux Reviews

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:
http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/forum
It’s also in the sidebar under the RSS feed.
Please feel free to drop by and chit chat about Linux or whatever.
Edit: You need to register separately for the forum. 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 [...]