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June 15th, 2008

Poll results as of June 16, 2008

Where did/do you get your Linux distros?

Downloaded from the Internet - 40 - 91% of all votes
A burned CD/DVD from a friend -1 - 2% of all votes
Bought online - 2 - 5% of all votes
From a magazine subscription - 1 - 2% of all votes

Total Votes: 44
There’s a lot of you who get copies […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

June 1st, 2008

New Poll: Where do you get your Linux distros?

Do you buy Linux DVDs online? Or do you ask someone to burn a copy for you? :)
Whether you get them free from magazines, from the Internet or somewhere else, let us know. Especially if you have other sources we don’t know of yet.
My copies are mainly burned CDs or DVDs from friends […]

By Clair -- 5 comments

April 19th, 2008

Puppeee for you Asus EEE

If the default distro doesn’t work out for you and you don’t feel like using the Xubuntu made for the EEE, you have another option: Puppeee. It is based on Puppy Linux, a distro written for ease of use and efficiency. The review on Linux.com has to say this about Puppeee:
During boot, the […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

March 22nd, 2008

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC2 is here

Aceras, or Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, is now available for download!
Features include:

Easy installation of multimedia codecs via Codeina so you could play all sorts of media files.
Support for synchronizing your smartphones with KDE or GNOME.
ATI’s new Radeon HD 3xxx range is also supported. (And I think I’d hear those who use ATI give out […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

February 16th, 2008

Mandriva 2008 beta 2 slated for spring!

Wondering what other distro to check out? Well, there’s the upcoming second beta of Mandriva 2008 this spring. :D Mandriva as a distro is quite different from Ubuntu but I’ve used it earlier (when it was still Mandrake) and it has a nifty set of default packages included in it.
Here are the major […]

By Clair -- 0 comments