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Come on, GNOME based Pardus Linux!

Some times back I had written a small review on Pardus Linux 2007. I had mentioned that I did not use it for long time, but it is worth to watch this innovative and good performing distro. My production system is Ubuntu based. Before upgrading/installing Ubuntu 7.04, I was trying to use Pardus Linux 2007 as my production system as trial basis. It was a good success. The performance, usability, stability are near comparable with Ubuntu. But it needs more integration of application, polish and ...
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Review: Pardus Linux 2007

Distrowatch had introduced me Pardus Linux. It says about Pardus as, Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus has a range of unique features, such as Mudur, a start-up framework of Pardus to speed up the boot process, and PiSi, an efficient package management system with a user-friendly graphical interface. The official web site of Pardus features the following as highlights of Pardus Linux 2007. Multili...
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Review: Dreamlinux 2.1 WORKS Edition

It is my long pending work to install, experience and review the DreamLinux. Atleast now I have done it. What I expected from DreamLinux screenshots are just eye candy desktop, but in reality? Let us get into the review. Configuration: Hardware: PIII 800MHz / 192MB RAM / Intel 82815 Chipset board Operating System: Dreamlinux 2.1 WORKS Edition (Debian based) with 2.6.14 kernel. Live CD: Booted the system through Live CD. GRUB menu presented a lot of options to start the CD. It is ...
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Review: Arch Linux 0.7.2

Why Arch Linux? When the life goes smooth, we get bored. When everything goes smooth we need some challenge to face and conquer. This is applicable for Linux distribution world also. After started admiring with Ubuntu, I did not want to be locked with it. I test a distribution only if it is having some unique feature in it. Zenwalk is one such promising. Here is my review on it. I came to know about Arch, which is optimized for i686 processors, so it is meant for recent generation of processors...
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Review: Zenwalk 3.0

The time I spend on distro watching (various linux distributions) has come down a lot after working on Ubuntu for last one year. But I use to revise my soft corner with Ubuntu by testing some other distro also. I am not a linux server guy. I am a programmer who needs good stable home pc with programming environments, a lot of packages, multimedia features, personal management suites and internet applications with reasonably latest release also. Ubuntu fulfills this to good extent. Now I have leg...
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Installing Linux From Scratch – Part II

Day 3: 1st Aug 2006, evening (Tue): Powered on PC and chroot-ed into LFS filesystem again. glibc compilation, time zone settings, etc. are being done. This time i am more comfortable. But tar command is not working in chroot-ed environment. I think I have done some mistake. But no problem, I extracted the bzipped tar files from host (Slackware 10.1) environment and compiled from chroot-ed environment. :-) :-) happy to manage this kind of issues. Day 4: 05th Aug 2006 (Sat): The whole day I spe...
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Installing Linux From Scratch – Part I

My LFS History: you are entitled to skip :-) This is my long time wish to install a Linux system from scratch. One year before I had downloaded Linux From Scratch (LFS) - Live CD 6.1. I prepared a hard-copy of installation manual. With a lot of enthusiasm I sat in front of my computer. I booted the system with this live-cd and start installing by reading the manual. After 2 hours, I found that LFS installation is not like most other distros, to start installation and finish in a few minutes or ...
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Fedora Core 5 on HP nx6120 laptop

I have installed Fedora Core 5 on my HP nx6120 Laptop. It looks faster and stable than previous releases. My observations: 1. Faster booting - it takes 60 seconds to get login screen. 2. Faster GNOME - takes 4 seconds to get desktop from gdm. 3. Samba client and Server - I am able to connect to all my Windows PCs and Servers in LAN without any issues. Windows Printer was configured using System->Administration->Printing tool successfully. 4. Tamil support is excellent with good fonts ...
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Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 Beta on my Laptop

Recently I updated my HP-Compaq nx6120 laptop with Ubuntu Dapper Drake alpha 6.06 release. Then I have updated to Beta-2 release. Here is the screenshot of this cute desktop. The first impression is Fantastic Performance and eye candy. Following are the improvements over Breezy 5.10 version: 1. Faster booting - takes just 55 seconds to get complete desktop (with auto login) with default installation 2. Nice GUI shutdown 3. Faster GNOME - takes 3-4 seconds to get desktop from gdm. 4. Sam...
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FreeBSD 6.0 on HP nx6120 Laptop

Apart from Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux, my laptop has one more feather in its cap. It is FreeBSD 6.0 My passion on this OS stands for long time since I read about its background through Linus's autobiography. I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my laptop. Here is the configuration: 1. Intel Centrino 1.7GHz. 2. 512MB RAM 3. 2.5 GB Partition for FreeBSD 4. Intel ICH6 sound (AC97) 5. Broadcom BCM5705M ethernet 6. Intel Wireless 2200 7. Broadcom Bluetooth Out of 2 CDs of FreeBSD 6.0, I have first CD o...
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Cool Firefox 1.5

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5 web browser yesterday (29th Nov 2005). It has many good features and improvements. I list out the features which I understood and like here. 1.Back and Forward works fast. Everytime when you go forth and back, the already rendered page is transferred to screen instead of rendering again. Nice thought! 2.Automatic Update has been very well integrated. Here afterwards need not to download the entire (5MB) Firefox for security update. A few hundred KB of file is eno...
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Amazing OpenOffice 2.0!

One of my office colleague was working on a MS-Word (.doc) file with MS-Office 2003. Suddenly one bad day it was corrupted. He could not open the file with MS-Office 2003 suite. The recovery option did not even showed that there is a file to recover. Just like that I came to know this. I gave a try with OpenOffice 2.0 writer. It opened the file without any hassles. MS-Word (.doc) format is proprietory of Microsoft, which is closed one. A open source office suite (OpenOffice) which does not have ...
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coLinux cooperating with Windows XP on HP nx6120

What is this? I tried coLinux 0.6.2 on Win-XP-SP2 running on HP nx6120 laptop. :-) It works fine. Just amazing....! I felt like working on full fledged installed linux. http://wiki.colinux.org is very much useful. It **does not** take much memory, just 2 MB only :-) What is coLinux? CoLinux is a linux running on other Operating System, so that switching between two operating systems is just finger tip work. Installation method I followed 1. Downloaded coLinux-0.6.2.exe (4.7MB) and Debia...
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