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Sabayon-5.3 XFCE

Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:39 |

Written by chris_f |

Sabayon was never high on my list of favorite Linux distros. I tried a number of times to like it, but it tried to do too many things at once, both literally and figuratively. It was huge, ungainly, and suffered as a result. XFCE has been considered a lightweight desktop environment for awhile now, and I agree. It has gotten a bit bigger lately, but still quicker than either GNOME or KDE. Someone finally got the idea of addressing the obesity of one with the efficiency of the other.

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Last Updated (Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:55)

FreeNX

Sunday, 18 July 2010 21:33 | Written by chris_f |

It's easy to take networking for granted; just plug your PC into a modem or router (or, ahem, "find" your neighbor's wireless connection) and voila, instant Drunken-Facebooking. If you're old-school and remember a time before teh interwebs (think the acoustic-coupler modem), however, then you get excited about different ways to connect one computer to another. What's even cooler is stuff like tunneling, virtual private networks (VPNs), and encryption. Yes, really. Oh, shut up, you know it's cool.
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Last Updated (Sunday, 18 July 2010 22:41)

Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:53 | Written by chris_f |

On yet another jaunt through DistroWatch (link to the right of this article) in serach of new stuff to break try out and review here, I found this. At first glance it looked like an amateur 3rd-gen spin by someone's college-bound slacker, but as it turns out this is "real" Linux, as in source-compiled. Some people may never understand why that is a good thing.
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Last Updated (Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:14)

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