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.

100 Responses to “Request A Review”

marcelo
August 30, 2009 at 12:19 pm | Permalink

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what about Sabayon Linux?
B1n4ry_J0n3s
August 31, 2009 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

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blackPanter os looked like a catch
tlmck
September 1, 2009 at 12:55 am | Permalink

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These 2 look interesting.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=monomaxos

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090831#feature
jai ho
September 3, 2009 at 9:58 am | Permalink

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Just now completed reading your Vixta a linux distro looking like Windows Vista…Now i would like you to do review about a linux disrto looking like Apple’s Mac OS X……..

The distro’s name is LIN-X and it looks like osX
This was its site

http://lin-x.info/

but the link is not working now..i don’t know why..

It is actually based on MAC4LIN project.I have used it and it was one of the best in that department…mac4lin project is wonderful…..it was able to create mac os x look in ubuntu…

so if you are getting time,try it….
jai ho
September 4, 2009 at 3:44 am | Permalink

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Today i have found a site to download LIN-X.

http://www.virtualboximages.com/Lin-X-1.1

So please try this and review it….I would like to have a review about a linux distro looking like apple mac os X just after your review about vixta linux…so please try it……
jai ho
September 11, 2009 at 3:19 am | Permalink

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1) Another distro i’m really interested is LUBUNTU based on LXDE desktop environment supported by Canonical….

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

If you are a bit adventurous you can download the alpha release version from

http://blog.lxde.org/?p=514

Its a light weight distro (381 mb only) we can use in old hardware…I prefer lxde to Xfce…Xubuntu is 600 mb

LXDE comes with pcman filemanager,openbox windows manager etc

You can install lxde in your exixsting ubuntu desktop from the repo….
Its only 11mb …reboot your pc and select lxde as your desktop environment…

2) Another distro based on lxde is Moon OS

http://www.moonos.co.cc/

3) I would like to read a review by you about Jolicloud

http://www.jolicloud.com/

but it is an invite only beta now…so if you can get an invite using your contacts,it will be useful for the regular followers of your blog like me..
simon
September 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

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How about Zenwalk ?
jai ho
September 12, 2009 at 6:34 am | Permalink

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Goblinx 3 is released a few days ago…
Jonathan E. Brickman
September 14, 2009 at 11:46 pm | Permalink

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I am interested in seeing a review of Sabayon Linux. It has its own packaging system, and I have installed it with apparent considerable success as ‘first linux’ for several friends.

J.E.B.
Mitchell Hale
September 16, 2009 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

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Hey Jim, I liked how you ventured out of the Linux domain to review Desktop BSD, but I would like to point out it is not by any means a very polished distro. I am not a BSD user myself (for compatibility issues, I know most linux software works on BSD, but some apps I frequently use don’t), but I have taken a liking to PC-BSD (site: http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD is a desktop user oriented distro, that is also great on servers. PC-BSD uses KDE 4, rather than 3 like Desktop BSD. It also has many features that make it great for starter BSD users. It has .pbi installer files, which is like a .exe on windows, or a .dmg on mac.. The install DVD is very large (Over 2 gb) so it won’t fit on a liveCD. (I know you do your reviews in a virtual machine, so it shouldn’t matter). If installing from a DVD is not an option, you can download the three install CDs. I would like to see a review of PC-BSD so your site readers will know that BSD can be as polished as linux.