The team behind the AgiliaLinux operating system has announced a couple of days ago, on December 30, 2012, the immediate availability for download of AgiliaLinux 8.1.1. Dubbed Telnyashka, and powered by Linux kernel 3.6.11 and KDE 4.9.4, the AgiliaLinux 8.1.1 is the first point release from the AgiliaLinux 8.1 series, bringing many fixes and im... (read more)
Sabayon is a multi-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is part-source, part-binary distribution. I just call it a hybrid distribution. The latest update, Sabayon 5.3, was made available to the public in early June. Installation images are available for the GNOME, KDE, LXDE and Xfce desktop environments. This review is based on the GNOME edition. The [...]
Sabayon 8 is the latest version of Sabayon, a part source, part binary, multi-purpose Linux distribution based on Gentoo. This is a distribution that I have often criticized for missing critical components and being very buggy, but the developers seem to have gotten their act together. Sabayon follows a rolling release development model, which means [...]
Linux Mint 14, code-named Nadia, is the latest edition of Linux Mint, a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. Contrary to what the release number suggests, Nadia is actually the distribution’s seventeenth public release, coming almost six years after Ada, the first edition.
Aside from the line based on Ubuntu Desktop, Linux Mint also maintains a line that is based on Debian.
Sabayon Linux 5.5 is the latest release of the Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is also the first Sabayon release this year and judging from this distribution’s release history, we should expect to see at least three more releases before the end of the year. Sabayon offers a separate installation image for each of the major [...]
Parsix is a Linux distribution based on Debian Testing. It is a community distribution with roots in Iran. It is not as popular as other community distributions, but development is active and well. The only previous review of Parsix on this website was of Parsix 3.2, which was more than a year ago. This article [...]
PC-BSD is a desktop distribution based on FreeBSD and using the KDE Plasma desktop. The latest stable release, PC-BSD 8.2, was made available for public download last month. This article presents a review of this latest release.
Kubuntu is a community-developed, desktop Linux distribution sponsored by Canonical Ltd, the same company behind Ubuntu. The latest stable release, Kubuntu 11.04, code-named Natty Narwhal, was released on April 28, 2011. This article presents a detailed review of this KDE-based Linux distribution. Installer and Installation Process: To install Kubuntu on a 32- or 64-bit computer, [...]
Linux Mint 14, code-named Nadia, hit the download mirrors yesterday. That’s less than 10 days after the first Release Candidate was announced. What type of testing does this thing get?
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