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A Disappointing Review of #! 10 "Statler"

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Nov 13, 2011 4:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Debian
This is basically a rebuttal to a recent review of #! 10 "Statler" on Dedoimedo. I feel like the author called some areas of constancy "regressions", and he didn't really try to follow through with the installation after he started.

Review: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot"

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Oct 29, 2011 9:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE, Ubuntu
I take back anything bad I said about Kubuntu. I mean, it was true then, but definitely not now. Kubuntu is certainly among the best KDE distributions I've seen thus far.

Review: Edubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot"

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Oct 22, 2011 8:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNOME, Ubuntu
I'm still not a fan of the Unity workflow, but that's my preference. Honestly, Unity and the Edubuntu experience are worlds better than they were just 6 months ago.

Review: Sabayon 7 KDE + GNOME + Xfce

Installation problems with some key packages makes me not recommend that newbies install and use it regularly, but it's officially a pretty awesome live distribution again.

Review: Kororaa 15 "Squirt"

The KDE edition seems to have regressed in terms of stability, as I thought I'd never see a Plasma crash ever again but I did, while the GNOME edition is just plain annoying.

Review: Linux Mint GNOME 201109

There are a few small areas polish-wise where this lags behind version 11 "Katya" GNOME, but otherwise, I really like how it combines trademark Linux Mint ease of use with super speed!

Revisited: Fuduntu 14.10.1

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Sep 17, 2011 4:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Fedora, GNOME
It's just as good as before, and it's rolling-release now too, meaning it's super-good! Yay!

Review: Mandriva 2011 "Hydrogen"

Aside from a few crashes that had more to do with me than Mandriva, it's stunning to see how thoroughly Mandriva has reinvented itself. Bravo!

Revisited: openSUSE 11.4 GNOME

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Aug 20, 2011 2:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNOME, SUSE
It's a little slow at times, but it feels a lot like Linux Mint, but even more professional. Yay!

Review: Linux Mint 11 "Katya" LXDE

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Aug 18, 2011 6:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
The GNOME ALSA mixer is a pain to use, so the LXDE edition is overall a little harder to use than the GNOME edition, yet it's just as heavyweight too, so I don't see any point in using it.

Revisited: CrunchBang ("#!") Linux 10 "Statler" Xfce r20110207

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Aug 10, 2011 2:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Debian, Xfce
I loved the Openbox edition, so I didn't bother trying the Xfce edition...until now. Surprisingly, the Xfce edition has all the good parts of the Openbox edition while fixing some of Openbox's shortcomings, making it even better!

Review: CentOS 6.0

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Aug 2, 2011 12:09 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community, Red Hat
It's stable, rock-solid, light, quick, reasonably user-friendly, and will have 10 years of support, but I see no reason to use it over Scientific Linux, which is all of the above and a little more user friendly too.

Review: Chakra 2011.04-r2 "Aida"

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Jul 29, 2011 5:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE
Chakra's awesome. I mean, it's *really* cool. It's fast, it installs programs really easily, it's stable, it's rolling-release, it's light on memory for a KDE distribution, and it's polished!

Review: Kongoni 2011 "Firefly"

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Jul 26, 2011 11:39 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE, Slackware
It generally worked well, and the selection of truly free software is expanding day by day, but my issues in getting a Google Talk SlackBuild installed makes it...well...unsuitable for the newbies it may or may not be targeting.

Review: PCLinuxOS 2011.6 KDE

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Jul 22, 2011 6:05 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE, Mandriva
When I got it to work, it worked really well and it was relatively stable overall, but because it took me a while to get it to work, I can't recommend it for newbies.

Review: Scientific Linux 6.0

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Jul 19, 2011 12:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Fedora, Red Hat
It's stable, rock-solid, pretty fast, and surprisingly easy to use. Plus, it's 10 years of official support is way better than many other distributions and rivals the other OS.

The Future of Various Linux Mint Editions

I've been excited about the moving of the Linux Mint GNOME (though there is still a main Ubuntu-based Linux Mint GNOME edition), Xfce, and Fluxbox editions, but less so about the KDE edition moving similarly.

Google+: Initial Thoughts

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth; By PV (Posted by PV on Jul 9, 2011 1:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
It's actually pretty nice, like Facebook but without the stupid privacy issues. That said, since installing the new Google Talk plugin for Linux, I have been having issues.

Facebook, Google+, and Centralized Proprietary Monocultures

The Facebook/KDE fiasco should teach us all to not put all our eggs in one cloudy basket.

Review: Sabayon 6 KDE

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Jun 25, 2011 7:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Gentoo, KDE
It's a better live distribution than before, but the installer crashed, so I'm hesitant to recommend it for daily use.

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