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Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a number of different small/mini/tiny/whatever...
[January 16, 2009, 13:59]
New and Updated Distributions on Ant (the Dual Atom nettop)
Blog Comment It's a funny thing with Mandriva, it was one of my favorite distributions on both of my laptops and both of my netbooks - but on the nettop it seems to have a bit of a problem with the Intel 950 graphic controller.
[June 24, 2009, 14:34]
Using TCP Packet Size Distributions for Application Detection
White Papers In this paper an alternative approach to application detection, using packet size distributions, is applied to TCP applications. Various techniques exist to perform network application detection. However difficulty is encountered where the data...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog Comment If you are interested in small linux distributions, please try Debris Linux. In the interest of keeping this short, Debris Linux is: the smallest, fastest gnome-based linux distribution (less than 200MB) defaults to 16 bit color (helps with older...
[January 16, 2009, 20:18]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment You have left 4 important considerations out of your grouping of GNU/Linux distributions, which plays a big role in how people decide which distribution: The degree a distribution complies with the ethic of "free software", which has an enormous...
[December 16, 2008, 7:36]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Your mention of using Debian but looking at other distributions seemed quite important to me. @Tezzer - Thanks for the comment. I started to comment on in here, but I've written so much that I decided it was better to just make a separate blog post...
[December 15, 2008, 7:10]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog If you're interested in new Linux distributions, here are a couple of new Betas that I have taken a quick look at: Hopefully by the time the final VectorLinux 6.0 release is available they will either have a choice between LILO and GRUB (a couple...
[December 12, 2008, 9:37]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog A comment from Tezzer on my recent post aboutPCLinuxOS got me thinking again about the range of Linux distributions. My friends and family, and others commenting on my blog, frequently ask me why there are so many different Linux distributions, and...
[December 15, 2008, 8:13]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog A comment from Tezzer to my recent blog post about Two New Linux Beta Distributions got me thinking. Tezzer mentions using Debian, but looking at PCLinuxOS and others for systems that have "issues" with some Linux distributions.
[December 15, 2008, 10:12]
Linux Distributions Reducing Boot Time
Blog Those who want or need faster boot times should be happy with some of the upcoming Linux distributions. On my laptop computers, most of the current distributions take about one minute, plus or minus 5 seconds, to boot; a couple of them take...
[March 23, 2009, 13:10]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment "The best news for me is that it installs flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, without stumbling over the ATI display adapter as the new Mandriva release does. How's Mandriva stumble? Sorry if we covered this before.
[December 18, 2008, 5:33]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment I'd been waiting for a new version of PC LinuxOS. It's not my preferred version (I'm a debian boy) but I've found it often works on machines that have 'issues' with other distros.
[December 14, 2008, 19:22]
Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog Comment It is larger than any of the other distributions mentioned, but also clearly more functional than all of them. You may wish to take a look at AntiX, which began life as an effort to resurrect the old MEPIS-Lite stuff with the current packages, and...
[January 20, 2009, 7:37]
New and Updated Distributions on Ant (the Dual Atom nettop)
Blog Comment Quite a list of distros, but out of the bunch I will have to say my preference, as of now, is Mandriva 2009. Ubunto is the fastest booting, and I have tried all the rest. Eventually I'm thinking Moblin will end up on my netbook, as it is the only...
[June 24, 2009, 12:52]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment This post was a long, long way from being comprehensive in terms of the available Linux distributions, but I hope that it did a reasonable job of conveying an idea of why there are so many, and how they relate to each other.
[December 16, 2008, 11:45]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Thanks Jamie - this is a post to bookmark and bring out when needed. It's a question that comes up often.
[December 15, 2008, 15:57]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment To install rpms in pclinuxos you can do this one of two ways. First, install Kpackage and then right click the rpm and choose to open it with kpackage. Second, install them from the command line which is "rpm -ivh name_of_package.rpm"
[December 14, 2008, 19:17]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Some who looks rather superficially at a range of distributions, to at least get an idea of how they install, what they include, who they are target at and such, and some who concentrate on one in depth and detail, so see how it holds up over time...
[December 14, 2008, 15:16]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Seriously, the problem has S2110 (ATI) problem has appeared with the Mandriva 2009.0 distribution, the 2008 distributions installed just fine - and I suspect that is why PCLinuxOS still installs smoothly on it, because it doesn't look to me as if...
[December 18, 2008, 7:15]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment I feel _so_ bad being just an Ubuntu Fan Boy and not having the time/inclination/good manners to try out different linux distros! Thanks for the post, it's good to keep up with what other folk in the same linux boat are doing :)
[December 14, 2008, 10:07]
