Linpus Linux is a Fedora based distro that was designed to support the Asian market with Unicode support. However, Linpus is available in English, as well as several other languages, from their website. The Linpus Linux Lite version reviewed here is designed to be a simple to use and low memory usage for the Netbook [...]
Zenwalk 6.01 is a Linux Distro that aims to modern, user-friendly, and fast.
They offer four versions for download on their website:
Standard desktop OS
Core version – for minimal installation. This can be used as a server, or as a starting point for desktop users to then install whatever packages they need rather than going with a [...]
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 [...]
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 churning [...]
Looking for a KDE replacement for Kubuntu…
Open Suse KDE with Live CD
Novell has got this baby hopping and it’s a serious contender for the Kubuntu replacement that I’ve been searching. Although it’s running on KDE 4.1, they seem to have put the pieces together nicely.
Plasma Desktop – like it or not
The plasma desktop, [...]
I’m reviewing KDE distros of Linux as part of my ongoing series, searching for a replacement to Kubuntu, which I have been running for three years but decided to leave after their upgrade to KDE 4.x
Knoppix 6.01 Live CD
Knoppix 6.01 is running LXDE, that’s a good start in my opinion. I remember using a much [...]