Operating systems

Jonni Bidwell is suspicious of anything that simplifies complicated things. Like Zorin OS, which makes desktop Linux beautiful and easy. Roger Moore’s final outing as James Bond (A View to a Kill) saw him defeat the evil blonde supervillain Zorin with all the characteristic eyebrow-raising, bad punnage and borderline sexism that ‘80s audiences so loved. … Read more

Can a distro usurp Puppy Linux as the king of distros for low-resource machines? When it comes to low-resource machines, finding a distribution that functions well is a surprisingly difficult task. Namely due to the constraints they tend to include, but also the omissions normally in abundance. For a long time, Puppy Linux was regarded … Read more

Aminimalist distro with many unique traits.With its included software,the Live distro can be used for maintenance purposes,to unwind with multimedia,to run different servers, and even to indulge in some good old games. Users can also investigate the Antivirus Live CD, BakAndImgCD andThe SSS – all official forks. Ambitiously minimalist distros can be quite a tempting … Read more

It is said that Buddha attained the enlightenment (bodhi) while sat under a fig tree. Jonni Bidwell hopes that Bodhi Linux can likewise enlighten his life. Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Ubuntu-based distro that appeared on the scene back in 2011. It’s system requirements are among the lowest out there for any desktop Linux flavor. … Read more

Salix linux review – When it comes to choosing your next distribution, anything based on Slackware tends to fall out of favour. That’s not saying that Slackware is bad by any means, but it’s instead statement to the level of improvements made throughout some of its competition. One of the main Slackware-based distributions that has generally … Read more

Black panther os 16 review – Shashank Sharma tries out a new KDE distro that’s pleasing to look at, but discovers that sometimes appearances can indeed be deceptive. [wpsm_titlebox title=”Brief” style=”2″] Although not advertised as such, its homegrown CLI utilities can be a USP with a little work. While incredibly fast, the distro falters on … Read more

David Briddock explores the potential of using this stripped-back operating system on your mini computer The low-cost Raspberry Pi boards are brimming with latent potential for fun and experimentation. Knowing this, it’s no surprise that the A and B models have sold in the millions – far exceeding the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s wildest dreams. Yet … Read more

We recall the first version of a great Linux distro October 2004 promised to be an interesting month in the Linux community, as Canonical was releasing its very first distro. [wpsm_toplist] [sc name=”ad 2″] The September before had seen a collection of adverts announcing the release, and the community’s interest was piqued. Here, it seemed, … Read more

Integrating Windows with Linux has never been easier, thanks to the power of Robolinux. [wpsm_toplist] [sc name=”ad 2″] To gamer a user base, both established and new distributions need to offer something a bit different without over complicating the user experience. Its a surprisingly tricky balance to get right. Robolinux wont be a new name … Read more

[wpsm_toplist] [sc name=”ad 2″] WHATS NEW FOR 16.04? Discover whats shipping with your new Long-Term Support release Ubuntus Long-Term Support releases are, by definition, designed to be highly stable improvements with minimal disruptive changes. 16.04 is no different, and that’s why the majority of the visible changes are based on bugfixes and incremental quality improvements, … Read more

Whonix is very different from the other distros in this group test. The distro is in fact a pair of Debian-based virtual appliances that you must run simultaneously, in two separate virtual machines. The Whonix-Gateway is used for configuring Tor, and its only task is to route traffic via the Tor anonymising network. This machine … Read more