There was one post that got a couple of comments this past week, so I'll repost all of those.Review: Zorin OS 7 CoreReader arindam sen said, "Thanks for the good review. I agree with you - it is sad the Ubuntu 13.04 derivatives are only supported till Oct'13. Like what Fuduntu did with Fedora, some Ubuntu derivative should target of creating a rolling release distro. Anyway, Ubuntu developers were also debating over a rolling release distro last year. I am not sure what is the present status now."Commenter Eddie had this to say: "Zorin does...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
It has been almost exactly a year since I reviewed Zorin OS 6 Core, which was based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". The new version is based on Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail", so I'm reviewing that now.Main Screen + Zorin OS MenuWhat is Zorin OS? It is based on Ubuntu, uses a heavily customized GNOME 3 environment with Compiz as the WM and AWN as a panel. It also aims to look as close to Microsoft Windows as possible; at the moment, the target...
Sunday, 16 June 2013
There was one post that got a handful of comments this past week, so I'll repost some of those.Review: Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" Cinnamon + MATE Reader Mechatotoro said, "Thank you for the time to write about Mint; your review is very useful and enlightening. I really appreciate your objective observations! Again, thank you and good luck with your studies."An anonymous commenter had a different experience: "I have been using Mint 15 since the RC release and it has been rock solid for me as well."Reader Bernard Victor had a similar counter: "I am...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
It's that time of the year again. Linux Mint has just released the latest version of its distribution, and I'm going to review it.Cinnamon: Main Screen + Cinnamon MenuWhat has changed since the previous version? Cinnamon has gotten more bug fixes as usual. More importantly, its settings have been consolidated into one program, and it has become less immediately dependent on GNOME than before. Meanwhile, MATE has also been moving away from old libraries...
Sunday, 9 June 2013
There was one post this past week that got a handful of comments, so I will repost most of those.How-To: Make Xfce Like UnityReader Mike Frett shared, "That's why I use XFCE, very customizable. I don't particularly like Unity, but I enjoyed the article. Incidentally, you could have turned the Opacity down a bit on your Dock to match Unity's. I use Xubuntu, when I do I always delete the Dock on the bottom and drag the top bar down to the bottom. I add some spacers and launchers and such till it looks like *that* classic OS from around '98....
Friday, 7 June 2013
This is more or less the sequel to this post. It came about because I wanted to see if it would be easy to make Xfce look like Apple's Mac OS X; I figured that Unity looks similar enough, so I might as well write about that. Follow the jump to see how to do it. I would have added more pictures if I had more time, but I'm heading back to campus tomorrow, so I can only make this a quick post in the meantime.Read more...
Thursday, 6 June 2013
A couple of people have asked in comments (especially of my review of #! 11 "Waldorf") that I review Semplice. I took a look at its website and was pretty intrigued, so here is the review.Main Screen + Openbox MenuWhat is Semplice? Much like #! (which I may end up referencing frequently whether I want to or not), it is based on Debian and uses Openbox as its default WM. Unlike #!, which is based on Debian Stable (and issues preview releases based...
Monday, 3 June 2013
Somehow a few months ago, my family discovered the existence of this blog, and the first post they read was this one, for which this post is a follow-up. They then bought the aforementioned book for me so that I could read it and perhaps understand the criticisms laid out in the New York Times article that I rebutted.Well, I read the book. It was a fairly interesting read. Having taken the class 8.033 — Relativity, I would say that everything up to around the middle of the book is stuff I've seen before in the context of general relativity. After...
Sunday, 2 June 2013
There was one post this past week that got one comment, so I'll repost that one.Review: SolydXK 2013.04.06Reader Mechatotoro said, "Thanks for the useful review. I had not heard about SolydXK, so I will give it a try. Have you tried Mint Olivia yet? I'd like to hear your opinion since you are a Mint user and can therefore assess the system's general performance as compared to other versions of Mint... I'm also curious about the new themable login screen."Thanks to him for leaving that comment. This coming week, I will have at least one review...
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