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• CUPS – I love you. *hug* #
• #blog #sageekblog New post: Friday 13 August 2010 Tech News Snippets http://ow.ly/2pmAB #
• The South African #Blog #Awards 2010 is around the corner! You can nominate us by clicking the NOMINATE ME badge on http://ow.ly/2pnAn #
• Dear President Zuma. In your latest letter about press freedom you speak from two mouths. Please read the edited version http://ow.ly/2pE0d #
• #blog #sageek Lightweight Distro Roundup – Seven Days Seven Distros http://ow.ly/2pOrH #
• #blog #sageekblog New Post: Daily Snippets For Monday 16 August http://ow.ly/2qnpo #
• #blog #sageekblog New Post: Review Lubunt 10.04 http://ow.ly/2qnqV #
• I am grumpy because I haven't eaten yet… ooh! Hamsters are on special at the petshop! #drawyourownconclusions #
• hands @alastairotter a magnifying glass… in reply to alastairotter #
• My Twifficiency score is 40%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/ #
• phew – did everyone else have a really craptastic Tuesday? Wow this day was LOOONG and hectic… #
• Note to all Linux PPL working with CUPS – Win 7 needs a "hotfix" to work with IPP – a hotfix requested via e-mail. #techsupport #
• a hotfix that. does. not. work. #techsupport #
• Just gr8! I cannot delete printer because a document is still in queue. I cannot delete document because printer is "pending Deletion" #win7 #
• #ltg Oracle Sues Google http://ow.ly/2rrYy #
• RT @corrie206 being a ninja today (So am I – looking for someone to jump on and gut with my short sword) in reply to corrie206 #
• A girl throwing a hissyfit is an awesome persuasion @bazzareido How did u swing that? RT @cecilia_vdm: Upgraded to Business Class! Yesssss!! in reply to bazzareido #
• any other $buntu users running into plugin-container thrashing the CPU since the last update? It is Firefox related. #
• Correction to my previous tweet – we are at day FOUR http://ow.ly/2s24j with sabayon LXDE #
• Good Night All. Bedtime – will be thinking of all the Nurses and doctors working right now. Respect. And to those working tomorrow: G'luck! #

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(You can read from DAY 1 here.)

Day Four. Wow this has been a whirlwind series for us, and after today THREE MORE DAYS! (Plus maybe a few extras – we’ll see…)

Today we give Sabayon Five-Oh a run. Three of the four distros we reviewed this week have been using LXDE as its desktop environment.

Sabayon is the first distro we are having a look at that have not been Ubuntu based or a variant of Ubuntu.

Is different better? continue reading…

(You can read DAY 2 here and DAY 1 here.)

Day 3, and today we took a look at Xubuntu.

Xubuntu is the original lightweight Ubuntu. XFCE has long been considered the perfect balance between light weight and feature completeness.

What does Xubuntu offer then? continue reading…

(If you have not done so, you can read DAY 1 HERE)

Day Two. Our weapon of choice: Linux Mint 9 LXDE.

On the face of it Linux Mint LXDE is just a tweaked Lubuntu, but there is more to it than that.

It features (many) more software packages on install, codecs pre-installed, and some “heavier” packages like Thunderbird.

What did we think about it? continue reading…

Lubuntu, the flavor of Ubuntu sporting the LXDE desktop environment. It is one of the newer kids on the block, and in some areas it shows. It does have the power of Ubuntu and its community behind it, and hence was our first selected distro for the Seven Day Lightweight Distro Challenge.

What do I think of it? continue reading…

Day One of our Lightweight Distro Roundup.

Our candidate? Lubuntu, a Ubuntu flavor that uses LXDE as its desktop environment. I has everything that Ubuntu has going for it; large community support, tons of packages in the repositories and years of Ubuntu legacy and know-how.

Does it provide what is needed in a lightweight distro? continue reading…

If you talked to anyone offering Linux as an alternative to Windows a few years ago, they would tell you that Linux did not need as much resources than Windows did.

Yep, most Linux Distros where lighter than even Windows XP, and you could have yourself an operating system that was modern and extremely capable while still using your laptop from 2001.

Fast forward to today and you are looking at a very different picture. Where are the lightweight distros? continue reading…

• ♻ @hotsquid: #wordsthatleadtotrouble What ever you do don't push that button. (that and HEY GUYS WATCH THIS!) #
• Want to win tri nations tickets @loftus? Check out http://ow.ly/2lk2O #
• Want to win tri nations tickets @loftus ☛? Check out http://ow.ly/2lk2O @sabestmarketing #
• #wordsthatleadtotrouble hey you know computers, right? #
• ♻ @cecilia_vdm: #wordsthatleadtotrouble You are on birth control, right? #
• ♻ @corrie206: please start up, please start up, please start up…. (every IT guy has had that feeling) #
• Today #bafana are playing #baghana are you wearing your soccer shirts? #
• ♻ @cecilia_vdm:RT @Moyaba: The information protection bill is like the ANC putting a "do not disturb sign, fraud and corruption in prog … #
• note self; dont blackmail someone by sending them parts of something they can reassemble themselves eventually they wil have the whole thing #
• Can someone tell me why ALL our critical records like client details are kept in an archaic ACCESS database type thingie? #thingsthatboggle #
• now listen! Somma y'all might know this, somma y'all don't…. #djkool #
• HipHop glory – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o5Bujo5kWk #whatwascoolwhenIwasakid #
• haha almost had my proby wash a harddrive under a tap. "No for sure you can wash it…" I had to stop him… #
• #ltg Letstalkgeek is on! COMON and listen/watch the show! #
• Zacon is due soon! #LTG http://ow.ly/2og2J listen http://letstalkgeek.net #
• #ltg #zacon some talks from last year Zacon http://ow.ly/2ogbh #
• links from #ltg episode 18 http://ow.ly/2oiAi #
• #sageekblog New Blog Post August 12 Daily Snippets – iPhone Exploit and MORE! http://ow.ly/2oPwS #
• #sageekblog New Blog Post – In Search of the Perfect KDE4 Distro part 4, How's about some Linux Mint 9? http://ow.ly/2oQFG #

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Fourth Installment in this series, and today I bring you some thoughts on Linux Mint 9 KDE4.

I have spent more than a week with it, and I am very impressed. This weekend I will switch to my third candidate.

For more on that and other stuff, read on… continue reading…

• grr telkom line fail! #
• OH, and TGIF morning to all of Twitterverse. #
• Attention IT guys, is the intarwebs funky by you lot too? #adsl #outages #
• Love it when there is a crisis a client makes their responsibility your fault that it doesn't work. #techsupport #
• Today I drove behind the google streetview prius, wonder if it took a snap of me? #
• Dear Client DO not pee in your pants because you lost the wifi key I wrote down for you and no say "I cant believe you never wrote it down!" #
• BANZAAAI CHUCKYCHICKEN!!!!! *ahem* #asyouwhere #
• Dang. Sorry LTG guys I was so looking forward to tonites show but my audio is letting me down. Will grab the podcast of my fav show later :( #
• I just voted for this photo, check it out http://tweetphoto.com/36987783 #

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