linux distributions

There are a lot of techie reviews of Linux distributions out there. Techies are the ones that usually read, write, (and flame) these reviews.

This is a great success story of a Windows user's Linux experience. Hopefully this will have a little more weight than just me preaching to the choir.

December 04, 2008 - 1 hour, 34 minutes ago Share Comments Fedora is without doubt one of the most prolific Linux distributions around.

Phoronix: "With the EXT4 file-system being marked as stable in the forthcoming Linux 2.6.28 kernel, and some Linux distributions potentially switching to it as an interim step until the btrfs file-system is ready, we decided it was time to benchmark this journaled file-system for ourselves"

it's actually possible to run Crysis on Linux? --Yes, there's a way to install and run the game in Linux, and all you need is Wine.

In fact, Crysis has been known to run on some major Linux distributions like Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu with only minor issues.

I think you would have heard about the customization power of linux distributions.Now let us see the customization power of ubuntu and similar distributions with GNOME desktop.For these tweaks no coding is necessary,you just have to know how to use your keyboard and mouse.If there is 1 place for all your customization needs then its gconf-editor

December 02, 2008 - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago Share Comments Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because no, changing ...

OStatic: "The Linux Foundation announced this week that all "major" Linux distributions are now in compliance with the federal mandate by U.S.

Department of Defense (DOD) that helps ensure the world won't run out of Internet addresses anytime soon."

IT'S easy to ignore the tide of Linux distributions based on Ubuntu - there are just so many of them and you wonder what yet another could possibly be offering that is not already offered elsewhere.

ruphus13 points out news from the Linux Foundation, which announced that all major Linux distributions meet certification requirements for the US Department of Defense's IPv6 mandates.

The announcement credits work done by the IPv6 Workgroup, whose members include IBM, HP, Nokia-Siemens, Novell and Red Hat.

Quoting: "Linux has had relatively robust IPv6 support since 2005, but further work was needed for the open source platform to achieve full compliance with DoD standards.

Fedora is without doubt one of the most prolific Linux distributions around. In the span of only 5 years, the Fedora Project has already unleashed 10 major versions of Fedora.

Let's take a trip down memory lane and have a visual desktop tour of this wonderful distro starting from its inaugural version until its most recent version.