Distro Updates
Linux Mint 11 LXDE has been released. This is the first release, other the main edition, which uses the GNOME 2 desktop environment, of Linux Mint 11, the edition of Linux Mint based on Ubuntu. While a full review on the main website is still in the works, here are a few screenshots from a [...]
Pardus is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with roots in the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), Turkey. The latest table version, Pardus 2011.1, was released just yesterday. Like the previous stable release, Pardus 2011, it seems that this edition has a bug in YALI, the installation program, that causes installation in Virtualbox to [...]
Pardus is a Linux distribution using the K Desktop Environment. It is developed and maintained by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus 2011.1, code-named Dama dama, is the latest stable release. With this release comes the option to disable LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, as the default disk partitioning scheme. It [...]
CentOS, Community ENTerprise Operating System, is a Linux distribution “derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor” (read Red Hat, Inc.). Version 6, released two days ago, is the latest stable release. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. While I work on a detailed [...]
Linaro is an outfit formed mid last year to deliver “the best tools and Open Source Software (OSS) for Linux on the ARM Cortex-A family of processors.” Linaro 11.06 is the latest release. According to the release announcement: 11.06 is the Linaro’s first release delivered on the new monthly cadence. Since we started focusing on [...]
Seems like every outfit is offering a cloud service. If you are using Mandriva Linux, and expect to upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Mandriva Desktop 2011, you will have access to one that you may use to store all or some of the contents of your home folder. The service is in beta mode, but you [...]
Getting closer to the release of Mandriva Desktop 2011. The first release candidate was made available June 30, 2011. I do not like to review pre-stable releases, so this is not going to be a review, but a short preview. Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out if there has been any changes to [...]
Chakra is a Linux distribution I recently reviewed (see Chakra GNU/Linux review). I have also written a tutorial on GPT partitioning on it here. An update has just been released and the lead developer emailed with the following: Again thx for your great review of Aida. Now we released the first respin of it. Most [...]
