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June 29th, 2008

Poll Results: Where do you get your Linux distros?

The results are:

Downloaded from the Internet - 59 (91% of all votes)
A burned CD/DVD from a friend - 1 (2% of all votes)
Bought online - 2 (3% of all votes)
From a magazine subscription - 1 (2% of all votes)
Ordered DVD’s for free! - 12 (3% of all votes)

Total Votes: 65
Two people said they ordered […]

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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 […]

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May 14th, 2008

Fedora 9 released

Fedora 9 has the following features:

FreeIPA - for managing identities and authentication
support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems
unified installer of packages via PackageKit

Desktop environments such as GNOME 2.22 and KDE4 are available so you could choose either.
I guess that for people who are dual-booting […]

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April 24th, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out!

And yes, the servers will be hammered by requests of people wanting to download the ISOs.
So use the mirrors, ok? :D
If you need a cheatsheet on the commands you might need, you could check out yesterday’s post and if you want to think about how you should partition and mount your Windows partition if you’re […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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