Archive for the 'Distro-Tour' Category

Updates and KDE 4.0

June 4th, 2007

[This should have been posted over the weekend, but as usual, real life caught up with me. I've also decided to split what was supposed to be one long-ish post into a series of small ones.]
Updates:
1. Mandriva Spring review now up! Let me just explain some details about this Distro-Tour project I’m doing. It’s purpose [...]

The Distro Tour Project – Mandriva 2007.1 (Spring)

June 1st, 2007

This is the second part in my Distro Tour Project, featuring Mandriva 2007.1

Contents:

Installation
Hardware
Default Applications
Performance
Software Management
System Administration
Documentation
Other Special Features
Conclusion

Note: I installed Mandriva 2007.1 Linux Free edition. So whenever I refer to Mandriva defaults, I refer to the defaults in this edition.
1. Installation (2/5)
My installation experience with Mandriva 2007.1 was a terrible one, but wasn’t without its [...]

Catching up

May 17th, 2007

Just a few quick updates:
1. My workspace obsession has finally ended, resulting in a new room layout. Although a new LCD monitor would probably make me redo everything. But now I’m more “focused” on making/finding a laptop stand.
2. MOTU “project” put on hold: with a lot of stuff getting in the way, I have [...]

The Distro Tour Project: openSUSE 10.2

May 15th, 2007

This is the first part in my Distro Tour Project, featuring openSUSE 10.2
Contents:

Installation
Hardware
Default Applications
Performance
Software Management
System Administration
Documentation
Other Special Features
Conclusion

1. Installation (3/5)
Installing openSUSE 10.2 is easy and very flexible. New or inexperienced users are presented with very sane defaults. At the same time, tabs or buttons give advanced users more features. One very neat feature of the [...]

The Distro Tour Project

May 12th, 2007

When Byakko (the laptop, originally called Takeshi Kaneshiro by my sister) finally arrived, I immediately grabbed the opportunity to do what I couldn’t do when I only had one computer: to test the different Linux distributions, specially the major, more famous ones. You might wonder why I didn’t choose the virtualization route, which would have [...]