Request A Review

Is there a Linux distribution you’d like to see reviewed? A Linux app you’d like to see covered? Post a note in the comments below and I’ll check it out. I can’t promise to review every app or distribution but I’ll definitely check out your recommendation.

Thanks in advance for your review suggestions.

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103 Responses to “Request A Review”

  1. tlmck
    July 13, 2009 at 11:41 am |
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    Here’s one that may be right up your alley Mr. Jim! A little off beat. :biggrin:

    http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-12-001-35-OS-RL
  2. DJiNN
    July 14, 2009 at 7:19 pm |
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    Jim, here’s one for you. “Austrumi” Linux ( http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/)

    It’s Slackware based, only 111mb (approx) iso and has a really lovely desktop setup. A small yet very capable distro IMHO.

    Cheers…. DJiNN
  3. Brian Masinick
    July 14, 2009 at 10:25 pm |
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    How about another really “off the wall” one to look at – kongoni.nietschzhe-1_12.2 – a cool, African based KDE distribution with Slackware roots? It is quite fast even in a VM?

    See http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kongoni for the details.

    I like it, running it in a Virtualbox right now.
  4. Brian Masinick
    July 15, 2009 at 1:02 am |
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    sidux 2009.02 is released at last – on mirror sites early July 15 and probably mastered sometime yesterday. Sure would love to see this one reviewed; I know what *I* think of it; interested in what you think, Jim, and what others may think of it as well. There are KDE and XFCE implementatinos, FULL and LITE, also Intel and AMD based ISO images. Distrowatch will probably have info on it in the morning; if not, go to sidux.com and you will see it there.
  5. Namida12
    July 24, 2009 at 11:27 am |
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    Mepis, I do not see a single review of this well supported distro. I have been using a 64-bit KDE version since the 6.5 release, Currently there are a number of remasters that are not the official KDE 3.5.10 release and all of them would be dependable for a main computer system:

    AntiX
    Gnome
    Xfce
    LXDE

    I recently downloaded a Mepis KDE4.2 remaster set up with the old style menu that completely evaporated any hesitation I had about moving to the updated KDE4 in the future. In the mean time I depend upon the current version Mepis 8.0.6 without any hesitation, using KDE 3.5.10.

    JR
  6. masinick
    July 24, 2009 at 5:04 pm |
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    antiX M8.2 has now been released, and I would like to see a review of the full version – and maybe I will take a crack at writing a review of the base version.

    If there really are not any reviews of SimplyMEPIS out there, I’d love to see impressions of SimplyMEPIS 8.0. It has been out since February, and it has had one formal official update, but the MEPIS Lovers community has been absolutely hopping this year with unofficial updates. Danum has released at least three respins with KDE 4.2, and has another one imminent with KDE 4.3. Marcos, another community packager, has released at least two respins of his own, one of MEPIS XFCE and another of MEPIS LXDE. All of these are of first rate quality.

    I don’t know if we want to get into the business of reviewing an unofficial “respin” or not, but Jim, if you do decide to give that a whirl at any time, these MEPIS respins are extremely impressive and all of them that I have tried out are nearly distribution release quality – that’s MEPIS distribution release quality – they EXCEED the quality of about 75-90% of the released distributions out there!
  7. masinick
    July 28, 2009 at 11:50 am |
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    Pumping up a hopefully pending review of antiX at http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=187754#post187754 – and hoping that a review of antiX will also get the antiX team some positive exposure too!

    The antiX announcement and information can be found at http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22317
  8. masinick
    July 28, 2009 at 11:52 am |
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    Official antiX announcement at http://www.mepis.org/node/14221
  9. masinick
    July 28, 2009 at 10:32 pm |
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    JR, that KDE 4.2 remaster is the excellent “Danum” remaster. Danum created a couple of them, beginning on January 27 when KDE 4.2 came out, called that one Cano, then came out with another one somewhere around KDE 4.2.3 and called it Cano 2. He has another one to be coming out soon; cannot recall the name of that one, but he does have a new name and his remaster will be SimplyMEPIS with a KDE 4.3 desktop.

    Marcos has done a great job, too, and has published at least two respins – one for XFCE, another for LXDE. These also have their own theme, though they are not quite as comprehensive as Danum’s work.

    antiX qualifies as a distribution in its own right, and it has been officially sanctioned by Warren Woodford and announced alongside SimplyMEPIS for a couple of years now. There are possible signs that Warren might sanction one or two more variations, if they hold up to the high standards of the name. A couple of them appear that they could, IF the documentation and support can equal that of SimplyMEPIS and antiX.
  10. Brian Masinick
    July 30, 2009 at 11:46 am |
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    Now that the majority of the distros that I have mentioned or recommended have been reviewed, the two remaining ones from my previous list are:

    1. SimplyMEPIS
    2, Debian Lenny

    Both are stable, both are based on Lenny, both have a very loyal following. Neither has changed a lot since released this past winter, and neither of them gets a lot of press, at least compared to the hysteria that usually surrounds Ubuntu and anything remotely connected to it or anything with Google in the name. These have something THEY DON’T – longevity and stability. I challenge you to find something more stable than either of these distributions.

    Another distro that has been out there a year or two is Omega. I first tried it as a respin of Fedora 10 and liked it because it came with the extras that cannot be directly included in Fedora. Now there is a Omega 11 release, and it is just as good as the previous one, and a bit more stable than Fedora 11 at release, since it includes the updates and improvements.

    If you like to track Fedora, but would rather have a somewhat more stable release, and you would also like to use non-free media extensions, then Omega is the distro for you. I think it is worth a review, too, since it is probably not that well known.
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