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Archive for January, 2008

PCLinuxOS Day 11 - Documentation and Information

I am not someone who believes that a Linux distributions sells itself, that technological achievement is enough to push it to the desktop of end users. As long as the educational systems keep on teaching Windows-based skills, there will be a lot of users who need some hand holding, some guidance, some instruction. What does [...]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

PCLinuxOS Day 10 - MiniMe 2008 edition: First impressions

PCLinuxOS is at the heart of it’s own ecosystem of remasters. During the month I want to check them out. The first one is the MiniMe 2008 edition.
What is the MiniMe 2008 edition about
The default PCLinuxOS 2007 is a complete distribution with a collection of software to get started. The decision on which collection has [...]

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

PCLinuxOS Day 9 - Wrapping up the control center

I am enjoying these days with the control center, but it’s time to wrap it up and move on. There are plenty of other things that need attention.
Network & Internet
Connectivity can be considered a key element, especially when you moving around with a laptop. The page Network & Internet is packed with tasks, some of [...]

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

PCLinuxOS Day 8 - Between a desktop and a server

Another day at the control center. I am impressed with the scope of tasks that can be executed via one tool. Earlier I mentioned Webmin and the control center shares quite a few characteristics with that tool (though the functions are different, of course). Let’s continue digging deeper.

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Monday, January 14th, 2008

Gentoo Founder offers to come back and give Gentoo a push in the right direction.

They days that Gentoo was considered one of the best -though not the easiest- distributions around were not that long ago. That status has been lost, apparently due to conflicts and problems within the Gentoo community. Sabayon Linux was spawned from Gentoo and showed what it takes to create a bleeding edge, fast and gorgeous [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008