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LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 rocking

2009-10-24T13:45:00.001+05:30

LinuxConsole is a new Linux distro but right now its rocking everywhere.

“LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 Multimedia

200Mb
To old computer, or systems with few disk space (You need only 256Mb for programs, system and data)
Kernel 2.6.30.5
Window manager Icewm + idesk + rox filer
Firefox 3.5.3 + flash 10 + plugin mplayer
Mplayer SVN
Xorg 7.4

LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 CD

Modules from multimedia ISO
Gnome
Cups
Gimp
gcompris, foobillard, frozen bubble

LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 DVD

Modules from CD ISO
ATICatalyst 9.9
Nvidia 185.18.36
3D Games (openarena, warsow, torcs, ...)
VirtualBox 3.0.6
PlayOnLinux
Qjackctl + ardour 2
...

LinuxConsole Jukebox

With the le jukebox, you can build your own isos. for example,to play openarena on a receent ATI card, just select modules openarena and aticatalist, then clic on the button de to build ISO (ISO can be transfered on USB key with unetbootin).”

(Source: http://linuxconsole.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/21-linuxconsole-102009-is-ready )

Installation:

There is four way to install LinuxConsole.

For installation Guide visit http://linuxconsole.org/index.php/en/installation/2-recommended

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Screen Shots :

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/LinuxConsole-1-0-2009-Is-Out-2.jpg/

Sabayon Linux 5 : Linux 2u

2009-10-24T13:10:00.002+05:30

Sabayon Linux 5 : Linux 2u

(Source: http://distrolove.blogspot.com/2009/10/sabayon-linux-5-linux-2u.html)

What’s New ?

    * Less than 2GB size (1.6GB for Sabayon5 GNOME x86)
    * Based on new GCC 4.4.1 and Glibc 2.10
    * Shipped with Desktop-optimized Linux kernel 2.6.31
    * Providing extra Server-optimized and OpenVZ-enabled kernels in repositories
    * Installer now available in multiple languages
    * Complete Ext4 filesystem support (used by default)
    * Complete Encrypted filesystems support
    * Featuring X.Org 7.5 and up-to-date FLOSS, NVIDIA, AMD video drivers
    * Containing GNOME 2.26 (2.28 ready) and KDE 4.3.1
    * Outstanding 3D Desktop applications (Compiz, Compiz Fusion and KWin)   working out of the box
    * Bringing Entropy Framework (Package Manager) 0.99.3
    * Shipped with OpenOffice 3.1 productivity suite, Multimedia applications
    * Transform Sabayon into an full-featured HTPC Operating System (Media Center) using XBMC
    * Shipped with World of Goo Demo - best 2D game ever!
    * Sexiest Skin ever! (Ian Whyman rocks)
    * Ready for Sabayon 6 (someday!)

Read Full article on Original Website http://distrolove.blogspot.com/2009/10/sabayon-linux-5-linux-2u.html

Linux Mint 7 Gloria Review (Search Linux)

2009-10-24T13:02:00.001+05:30

What's new in Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE?

(Source: http://distrolove.blogspot.com/search/label/Linux%20Mint)

Linux Mint 7 KDE Community Edition uses the brand new KDE 4.2.4 and it also comes bundled with Amarok 2.1 .

The changelog tab now supports Linux Mint packages. Previous versions of mintUpdate could only show changelogs for packages maintained by Ubuntu.

mintUpdate now shows the download size associated with each package upgrade.

Firefox now comes with the Moonlight plugin and support for Silverlight 1.x.

Linux Mint 7 Gloria comes with a linux 2.6.28 kernel.

The Ubiquity installer features graphical improvements and support for the ext4 filesystem.

Ubuntu 9.04 also introduced better notifications, faster boot times, enhanced suspend-and-resume and better switching between Wi-Fi and 3G connections.

I think time has come when can try this fantastic distro which very stable and least risky to virus as compared to windows any edition whether it is XP or windows 7.

Read the Full Original article here

http://distrolove.blogspot.com/search/label/Linux%20Mint

Sabayon Linux 3.5 Beta 3 review

2008-05-17T11:46:00.006+05:30

Distribution features and changes in Sabayon 3.5 beta 3
Sabayon Linux is World Most used feature rich Gentoo Based Linux distro. It always find a place in top ten Linux Distro in Distrowatch.com top 100 Linux List.

Multimedia :
Sabayon comes pre-loaded with all the required codecs. I was able to view DVD, listen mp3 files, watch windows media files.So, it is handy for all beginners who just want to try something better than windows.

System improvements:

- Boot time takes from 15 to 25 seconds less, thanks to Gentoo OpenRC and Baselayout-2 combined to our boot optimizations. On modern hardware, Sabayon now boots in less than 30 seconds.
- Improved VirtualBox support (hardware autoconfiguration)
- System directories have been cleaned up, resulting in a slight speed improvement
- Fixed a lot of keyboard mapping issues.

Sabayon Linux Installer updates:
- Added the long discussed Custom Packages Selector, customize your installation has never been so easy.
>>Fake Raid (dmraid) support implemented.
>>EeePC install mode got a lot of bug fixes.

- Core install mode got a lot of bug fixes
- Improved Entropy interaction speed by a 50%
- - Thus, improved upgrades speed too.
Linux Kernel 2.6.25.2 featuring:
- Improved Wireless and Laptop support
- Extra ATL2, at76, ath5k (w/PCI-X support) and e1000 on Intel ICH9 network drivers
- EeePC support with performance patches
- Ext4, UnionFS 2.3.3 and AUFS filesystem support
X.Org 7.3 featuring
- NVIDIA: 173.08, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 - automatic selection - 3D desktop fully supported
- AMD/ATI: 8.476 - 3D desktop fully supported
Enhanced Desktop, featuring:
- Compiz 0.7.4
- Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 supporting GNOME, KDE, a lot of plugins already included
- Fusion Icon, to enable/disable 3D effects on the fly!
Gaming! Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, Second Life! included as top-tier 3D games!
GeeXboX 1.1 to transform your PC into a full Media Center
K Desktop Environment 3.5.9 featuring KDE4 games
Full KDE 4.0.3 available in our Entropy repository!
GNOME 2.22.0
XFCE 4.4.2
OpenOffice 2.4.0
Elisa Media Center 0.3.4
Wine 1.0 RC1.
NVIDIA 173.08 beta drivers can cause slow 2D performance on some cards, you can just revert to 169.12 by running equo install ~x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.12.
Ath5k wireless driver doesn't support EeePC yet, please use ndiswrapper.

>>Conclusion.... Now I can advice you wait for final release of sabayon 3.5 because its has some bugs.

Ark Linux 2008.1

2008-05-15T13:18:00.017+05:30

Ark Linux is a Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use, primarily for people without prior Linux experience. Its main goal is ease of use, and the inclusion of many tools end users will need. Ark Linux is fully Open Source and Free Software, meaning, basically, you can freely redistribute it in both modified and unmodified form.

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Download ARK Linux 8.1 Click here

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the release of Ark Linux 2008.1, an easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution with KDE and a selection of highly up-to-date applications: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2008.1, a new version of its easy-to-use, easy-to-learn operating system. Contrary to our original plan for this release, we have decided to make one more release based on KDE 3.x, to provide a stable state-of-art system that fixes all known problems with earlier versions before the big move to KDE 4.x. Major changes from the last release include updates to KDE 3.5.9, kernel 2.6.25.3, glibc 2.8 and wine 1.0-rc1, building everything with GCC 4.3 for improved performance, greatly extended hardware support, and the addition of Gnash, a free player for Flash animations." Here is the brief release announcement.

• Linux kernel 2.6.25.3
• KDE 3.5.9
• Wine 1.0 RC1
• glibc 2.8
• gcc 4.3.0
• Gnash 0.8.2
• OpenOffice.org 2.4.0

Fedora 9 What's New

2008-05-15T11:22:00.003+05:30

Pros: Extensive repository of prebuilt software, good hardware support.
Cons: Installation may intimidate nontechnical people, and may not
deal well with multiboot environments.

Fedora is the community-maintained Linux distribution that's the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the leading commercial version of the open source OS. No surprise, then, that it has a tremendous following.

The biggest change for this release is the inclusion of KDE 4, the most recent edition of the desktop software that powers Fedora. (Ubuntu, on the other hand, uses the competing Gnome by default.) KDE 4 brings new icons and changes under the hood that should make Fedora run faster and use less memory than earlier versions.Now You can enjoy Mozilla Firefox 3 beta (considered better than firefox 2) included with more than 14000 new features ,it makes surfing really very fast.

download Fedora 9 from one of the official servers now.

But slowly, in the space of one weekend, I was able to re-establish some of the old behaviour and configurations, or find ways around the existing limitations. For Kate, my favourite graphical text editor, I was able to restore its old look through some of the available plugins. KMail, K3B, Kaffeine and Amarok all worked without any problems at all. Konsole was a bit more troublesome - it used to be able to remember the number of open tabs (and locations) from a previous session, but this behaviour seems to be no longer there. However, in terms of loss of features, the worst application by far has to be Konqueror. Once a highly customisable and even enjoyable file manager, Konqueror in KDE 4.0.3 is barely usable (you can't even copy or move files from the main window to the navigation panel, the one invoked with the F9 key?) and outrageously buggy. Dolphin is not much better either. Other annoyances include the Backspace key, which only works as expected half of the time in certain applications, pasting with the middle button, which is mostly a hit, but sometimes a miss, and the KDE spellchecking tool, which works in some applications (e.g. KMail), but not in others (e.g. Kate).

While these little bugs can be very annoying at times, there is one thing that compensated for all the shortcomings of the new KDE: its speed. I don't know if I should attribute this remarkable achievement to Fedora 9 or to KDE 4 (or maybe even to GCC 4.3?), but the fact is that the KDE 4 desktop in Fedora 9 is just so much snappier and more responsive than the KDE 3 desktop in Fedora 8. This is also true of Firefox 3.0b5 where everything happens so much faster, something that is especially noticeable on AJAX-powered web sites. This is probably the major reason why I will stay with KDE 4 and Fedora 9 for the foreseeable future - it is just so much faster than anything I have used on this particular machine (except perhaps some of the run-from-memory mini-distributions, such as SliTaz GNU/Linux or AUSTRUMI)!

As for Fedora 9 itself, I can't say it was a completely smooth experience. The PHP package still ships without support for SQLite, the only distribution that purposely disables this standard and well-tested PHP feature (as with Fedora 8, I had to download the source RPM package for PHP 5.2.6, remove the offending "--without-sqlite" parameter from its "spec" file and rebuild the RPM in order to be able to view DistroWatch.com locally). Some applications, such as Liferea and gFTP failed to launch on my upgraded x86_64 box, although both worked fine on an i386 test machine (new installation). I worked around the Liferea problem by downloading a newer version of the application that I found on the Internet, and I resolved the gFTP issue by switching to FileZilla instead. Both Liferea and FileZilla have been running fine since then.

When comparing Fedora 8 with Fedora 9, the newer version seems more stable. On Fedora 8, I had many problems with some applications that crashed regularly (KTorrent was the most notorious one) and others that did not always work as expected (K3B would sometimes report that it couldn't find any CD/DVD burner) - no such problems on Fedora 9. The X window system of Fedora 8 crashed at least once a week, but this was probably due to the combination of the proprietary NVIDIA driver and Compiz, something that I have yet to enable on my new system. Generally, I've found that the initial release of Fedora 8 was somewhat shaky in terms of stability of applications, but it became progressively better after it started receiving regular updates. I expect the same will be true in Fedora 9.

So if you are Fedora KDE user and expect some sort of a recommendation whether to upgrade to Fedora 9 or stay with Fedora 8, I would (somewhat reluctantly) say "go for the upgrade". Expect some major functionality loss, however, especially if you do a lot of file management in Konqueror, and you'll also get fewer options for configuring some of the important areas of KDE, including the desktop itself and the KDE panel. What you do get in exchange is much increased speed, a potentially more functional desktop with sexy widgets, and a faster Firefox. Best of all, you'll become part of building and testing the next-generation KDE desktop. Much depends on your own personality, but if you are a computing enthusiast who enjoys testing new things as they evolve, then Fedora 9 with KDE 4 should be an interesting choice.

Check out my next blog installation of Fedora 9