(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…
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…
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…
Our weekly roundup today features security.
This week - Facebook app steals peoples privacy (again), industry heavyweights launch security awareness campaign.
This week Quintin also shares with us his top twelve “Be Safe on the Internet” rules.
Read for more… continue reading…
Every IT guy with a few years on the job has had the honor of sharing his knowledge with someone new to the field. Often this is simply helping out a tech who is in a bind because you “saw this before.”
I had the rare pleasure and honor of being entrusted with the training up of a junior tech over the past two years.
What this has taught me is that mentoring a proby is about more than just passing on IT skills, you often learn a lot too… continue reading…
Part three of this series, and I am writing this from Linux Mint 9 KDE4. Already I am feeling very at home with it, and already after working heavily with quite a few KDE distros in a short timeframe I begin to realise some things that I find wrong with them are KDE specific.
Is Linux Mint 9 the KDE nirvana I am looking for?
Okay, I have spent more than a week with openSUSE 11.3 KDE4. Right now I am downloading Linux Mint 9 KDE. I have not decided on my perfect KDE4 distro, but openSUSE 11.3 is a really strong contender. In this short writeup I will explore some reasons why I might NOT switch to it as my default OS.
Look, for a work seeker being able to append an MCSE qualification together with the A+ and N+ that accompanies it to their CV is probably a good thing. It affords a slight advantage over other candidates who have nothing to add to their CV but experience.
Well let me state clearly – I will ignore the MCSE on your CV as of today, along with your N+ and A+ that you paid lots of money to earn. I will throw CV’s of raw MCSEs out in favor of unqualified candidates with even a few months practical experience.
Want to know why? continue reading…
On the final day of my series on using KDE4 for seven days I made the bold statement that I would switch from being a Gnome user to KDE4 if I could only find myself the perfect KDE4 distro. (Begin reading with the first day HERE)
Today I start that quest with openSUSE 11.3
This is not a review, my openSUSE review will come soon, but more an impressions and “does it fill my needs” writeup
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