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Hello Jim,
Since a while I am reading your reviews with great interest. Now I am looking for still unknown distros with potential possibilities. I saw on Distrowatch that Kahel OS has been placed on the waiting list. Then I looked on their website and it looks very promising. Will you review Kazhel OS. Thank you for your efforts. With friendly greetings from Holland.
Hello Jim,
You reviewed earlier Sabayon 4.2 on Extremetech. Than you were very positive. Now is Sabayon 5 out. I wonder if this distribution isalso suitbale for newbies on Linux. Thank you for your efforts. With friendly greetings from Holland.
I would like to read a review on Scientific Linux (it is a derivative of RHEL). In particular, I am interested to know if this distro is adaptable to a desktop use (is it possible to install proprietary multimedia codecs?). Thank you in advance.
As molen noted, KAHEL OS is very promising….It is based on ARCH LINUX and it uses GNOME as its desktop environment……It how Zenwalk is to Slackware…KAHEL OS IS ARCHLINUX MADE EASY…..Just visit their website and you will understand how well maintained it is….
I haven’t seen any good review about it when i googled about it….SO IF YOU ARE DOING A REVIEW ABOUT IT it will be USEFUL FOR LINUX ENTHUSIASTS….
http://www.kahelos.org/
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How about a KDE/Arch based distro. I just tried the Chakra Project and I am impressed. They are calling it an alpha release, but it looks pretty good to me.
http://chakra-project.org/
How about a review of julinux_0.1.4.7.iso? I downloaded it; I’ve never seen it in action before, nor had I heard about it previously until today. Claim to fame seems to be the ability to play Windows based games and use a relatively common Ubuntu-derived environment. Might be worth a look for the curious among us. I am hoping to have the time to at least check it out myself.
Thanks for the suggestion, Rick. I’ll pass though as I prefer not to look at alpha software for the most part. Please let me know though when they have a release version ready to go. I’ll be happy to take a peek at it.
sidux 2009-03 Preview has been announced. That means that sidux 2009-03 is within a couple of weeks away. This release adds a 2.6.31 kernel for new hardware support, the choice of ext3 and ext4 file systems, the availability of the new GRUB 2 boot manager, the latest KDE 4.3.2 and XFCE 4.6.1 desktop environments, and considerable refactoring of the graphical environment to support changes that have occurred over the past one to two quarters.
Should be a worthwhile release for those who might be new to this one. It is upgradable without installing this release for those who already use it. You can change the appearance to the new backgrounds by installing the “momos” specific sidux packages.
This has always been one of the fastest, most capable releases I use and it remains my personal favorite. I’d like to see what others think of it too.
Hi I like to request a review of linux mce(http://www.linuxmce.org/)
How about a review of PCLinuxOS
Hi David,
I did a review of that not too long ago for ET. It’s at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2345128,00.asp
I’m not sure the latest release was enough of an upgrade to get me to do another one just yet. I usually like to wait until there’s been a major upgrade before I review it again.
Hi Jim,
Opensuse 11.2 releasesed few days. I would like to see a review of that. I’ve latelty become a KDE4 fan and this is the biggest Linux Distro whose main Desktop is KDE4.
So i would like to decide if i want to shift from Kubuntu 9.10 to Opensuse 11.2.
Thanks,
Roshan Pius
Review Vector Linux. I’ve been wanting ti try it out but I don’t know how easy it is.
First, double apologies for my English and I have 2 ideas (hence double apologies…):
a) I noticed that you often use Virtual Box, which is|was a property of Sun:
what about reviewing OpenSolaris (I vmplayed it last year, and was very impressed with its nice gnome, though I am clueless enough not to find softs such as a C compiler I am accustomed to. As it might remain a little young for HW recognition, virtual boxing it would be
*ideal -at least I hope- and
* new to some of your readers I know I am one : they have exotic file system and unusual ways of storing apps, at least).
b) Usual reviews are : “it was {un|}easy to install, HW recognition worked|failed and the fora seemed help{ful|less}”
As, after some time, HW ends up with finding its drivers (at least with installed linuxen I know, it is another story with live {D|DV}Ds, of course…)
what about looking at the softs they ship :
Frugalware made me conscious Octave was getting newer releases last year -and I could recommend Octave to a friend of mine to replace matlab- ,
Mandriva -I bet Fedora and Suze do about the same thing, but I cannot look at everything – often ships unusual (for the time) softwares: [VMplayer, Vbox and qemu] in 2007 -they were little known- , nepomuk in 2008 and sage in the 2010.0 version -which might make a student in math very happy: HW recognition lasts a short while in a mans life, but complicated applications can train someone for years….