ArtistX 0.7 http://www.artistx.org/site2/ ArtistX is touted as a “free multimedia live Gnu/Linux distribution for audio, 2D and 3D graphics and video”. It’s based on Ubuntu (Intrepid 8.10) with Gnome and KDE desktops and featured literally 2,500 software packages in the media, graphics, and video space. In fact, ArtistX claims to have included all currently available [...]
Linux Games Quick Reviews Here’s another instalment in our huge list of great free games broken out by category that you can install and enjoy on your Linux desktop. We tested these on Slackware on a KDE desktop, but they should work on Gnome and other distros as well. To install them, simply go to [...]
Mint Linux 7 (Gloria) http://www.linuxmint.com/ Mint Linux promises to be an elegant and easily updateable distro. Originating from Ireland, it was launched as a variant to Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) and has quickly become one of the most popular flavors of Linux available. The two great assets of Mint Linux are that everything [...]
All apps listed here, unless otherwise noted, refer to the KDE Specifc version, but have been tested in Gnome as well. KImage Map Editor Here’s a simple to use and very useful image map editor. Drop an image or existing HTML file into the app window and draw the part of the image you want [...]
Samurai Linux – Testing for security, penetration, and reconnaissance The Samurai distro is available as a Live CD and it comes with the a gob of testing tools for security and applications. Samurai is Gnome-based and has a pleasant, yet simple, interface. The real wealth of this distro is in the number of security and [...]
Is it Windows or Linux? Let’s take a look at the latest Windows 7 Ultimate RC. After spending some time with it, the bells started ringing. It became quite evident that they were recreating the best elements of Linux while reversing some of the confusion created in Vista. As a matter of fact, the widgets [...]
Dreamlinux 3.5 is a Debian (Lenny 5.0) based popular Linux distro from Brazil. Dreamlinux can be run directly from a CD/DVD/USBStick or to a Hard drive. Dreamlinux comes with a selection of the best applications designed to meet most of your daily needs. Dreamlinux ships with the XFCE desktop, which is pleasant and easy to [...]
Reasons to get VMWare VMWare Server is a tremendous tool. It allows you to run multiple ‘virtual’ machines on your computer. This has many applications for the enterprise world. It is also a great tool for testing and tinkering for individuals. For example, you are running Ubuntu as your desktop OS, but you want to [...]
Continuing on my search for a Kubuntu replacement as I wrote about in my earlier post. Slax 3.5 Minimal Live CD Here’s a nice KDE 3.5 Linux distro with a minimal set of applications and only a 180 MB download. The Live CD took about 5 minutes to fully load and the CD was constantly [...]
Continuing in my quest for a replacement to Kubuntu as discussed here in my previous post. We are looking at KDE distros that can replace the Kubuntu 9.x release, which to me still seems like it’s in beta. PCLinuxOS 2009 KDE It’s running on KDE 3.5, which is a good start in my opinion. It [...]