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My laptop is very old, so old that many people don’t even remember the model. This is one of the last models designed and actually produced by IBM before it was sold to Lenovo – a good old IBM X31. I am also a dedicated Mandriva user since those times when it was known as Mandrake. Why did I decide to try Mageia?

Running a Live Linux CD or USB is a convenient way to perform a number of tasks when an installed OS is not necessary.

What do you know about Russia? Vodka? Bears on the streets? Siberia? Any more stereotypes? Let me give you another one: Linux. Yes, Linux!

Pardus team makes new releases even more often than Canonical with its Ubuntu. We have seen version 2011 released in spring, than 2011.1 released in summer time. Just 2 months passed away and here it goes! Please meet: Pardus 2011.2.

what is the best favourite KDE-based Linux distribution, voted by visitors of blog Linux notes from DarkDuck?

Nobody can argue there are 2 major Desktop Environments now in Linux world: GNOME and KDE take lion part in installed Linux desktop systems. Most Linux distributions are released with at least of them available. But since system requirements for resources of KDE and GNOME are rather high and growing, there is more and more space for lighter desktop environments like LXDE and XFCE.

Hard disk has been moved across to new laptop together with all installed OSes. Let's see how they settle in new house!

Developers this distribution did not want to make the name of their product difficult to remember or something unusual. They called it... Simply Linux.

There is no secret that Mandriva as a company was on a brink of bankruptcy not so long ago. It was good time for some external investors to take over the company. And there were such investors. Investment fund NGI bought a stake in Mandriva. Since then, things have changed in the company.

Latest version of Dreamlinux XFCE was released in March 2009 and has version 3.5. From this you can see that Dreamlinux is not the most dynamically growing system. Since that time, Debian has changed its stable version. But anyway... let's have a look at what Dreamlinux has to offer.

Did developers who started Mandrake project back in 1998 knew that their baby would become world famous operating system? But fate of this baby is not the easiest. It was renamed to Mandriva, remarketed, and finally split into at least two. I am talking about recent fork between Mandriva and Mageia.

To get the best out of your browser includes using up its different features, ensuring that it is secure, easy and simple to use.

GhostBSD is GNOME implementation in FreeBSD system. Latest version is 2.0. It was released at the end of March 2011. This version is based on FreeBSD 8.2.

Salix OS is Linux distribution based on Slackware and intended to be "simple, fast and easy to use". It is released in 4 options: KDE, XFCE, LXDE and Fluxbox. I am great fan of KDE, but because I am currently interested in replacement for Linux Mint XFCE, my choice this time was for XFCE edition.

I must admit, results are not exactly what I expected. But they reflect true situation on the KDE "market", I can't object.

Windows is by far the most used operating system, and for many people it works just fine. However, it is not necessarily the best, and you may find that you benefit from going to another operating system.

Firefox and Chrome(-ium). They are 2 different browsers, based on 2 different rendering engines, developed by different teams. But what to they have in common?

What is my opinion about OpenSuSE 11.4 KDE? Is it better than GNOME version? I definitely say yes, it is. It has some features which GNOME version lacks. They all brought in by KDE.

Could I imaging myself back into 1990s when I was downloading BSD-based system?

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