Linux distros

This year (2020), it’s 20 years ago that I first discovered Linux, picking up RedHat 5.1 (a number of CDs and a manual) for a small sum at a computer meeting. Installing it on the hard disk was very difficult, as the 540 MB HD was so encoded as to ...

Written by Adam Hunt Rudra Saraswat appears to be keeping busy during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has not only put out new releases of Ubuntu Unity and UbuntuEd, but on 16 November, 2020, he released the first version of a new distribution, Ubuntu ...

Written by Adam Hunt Ubuntu Unity brings back Unity 7, which was the face of Ubuntu from 2011-2017, and which still has a lot of fans, due to its efficient design and maximum use of keyboard shortcuts. Ubuntu Unity’s second release, version ...

Written by Adam Hunt Kubuntu users are well-known for their dedication to the distribution and for some very good reasons, too. Read our Kubuntu 20.10 Review. This fresh release of Kubuntu came out on 22 October, 2020. This is the ...

Lubuntu 20.10 was released on 22 October, 2020 and marks the beginning of the development cycle that will lead to the next long term support (LTS) release, Lubuntu 22.04 LTS, scheduled for release in April 2022. Read our Lubuntu 20.10 Review. ...

Jonni Bidwell is on a brave quest to banish binary blobs from his legendary Eee PC. Will this distro prove helpful, or become more of a hindrance? Linux | trisquel.info The world is full of people shouting and clamouring for the latest ...

Written by Adam Hunt Sometimes, operating system developers make it easy to be a software reviewer. They put out a nice set of “release notes" that detail all the changes since the last release. Then we can download the ISO file, boot it up, ...

Written by Adam Hunt Ubuntu family Long Term Support (LTS) releases are often eagerly awaited by users, but reviewers often rate them as lackluster or boring. Read our Xubuntu 20.04 Review. Because the Ubuntu development cycle has three "standard" ...

Written by Adam Hunt After his obituary was published in the New York Journal in 1897, American writer Mark Twain famously wrote, “the report of my death was an exaggeration." The same could be said for Unity, the user interface created by ...

Written by Adam Hunt Because of the way the Ubuntu development cycle works, there is often a lot of interest in the first "standard" release that follows a Long Term Support (LTS) release. In many cases, the development priorities and new ...

Jonni Bidwell is on a brave quest to banish binary blobs from his legendary Eee PC. Will this distro prove helpful, or become more of a hindrance? Read our Trisquel 9.0 Etiona Review. IN BRIEF A distro for those who take software freedom ...

Written by Gabriele Tettamanzi Back in 2014, I bought an Asus C300, Intel Celeron N2840 2 cores 2.16GHz, 4GB Ram, 32GB internal storage, Bay Trail QUAWKS architecture, running Google ChromeOS. After some initial enthusiasm, mainly due to the ...