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Review of Zorin OS Core 7 RC and Trench has another adventure in Linux
Last week Zorin OS released their release candidate of Zorin OS Core 7. If you’ll recall I was a huge fan of Core 5 but not so much of Core 6. Core 7 has got me back in the Zorin fold once again. The first thing that struck was how much cleaner it looked with…
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Reviews of Linux Mint 15 RC and Voyager 13.04
This past week Linux Mint released their release candidate of Linux Mint 15 in both MATE and Cinnamon versions. I tried both versions in the live environment. MATE gives you more of the traditional Linux Mint feel and style but I absolutely feel in love with the more modern feel and design of the Cinnamon…
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Review of Xubuntu 13.04
Last week the regular series of Ubuntu Linux distributions were released. The only one that concerns me is Xubuntu because the XFCE desktop is my preference. I never was a fan of KDE and screw Unity. The installation requires at least 5GB of hard drive space which automatically disqualifies it for the Asus EEE-PC challenge…
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Trench reviews Linux Mint 13 and Zorin OS 6 Core RC
Recently my two favorite Linux distros had major releases. Linux Mint released Linux Mint 13 and Zorin OS released a release candidate of Zorin OS Core 6. Both are based on Ubuntu 12.04. Again I refuse to use the stupid animal names that Ubuntu gives their releases. If you were one of the people, like…
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Trench’s adventures in Linux: The quest for widescreen resolution
One of my computer setups at home is my Acer netbook that I’m running through a VGA cable to a 19″ LCD TV. The problem I had with that and Linux is that most Linux distros won’t display natively at the required 1366×768 resolution. I was running Zorin OS Core on the netbook and configured…
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The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge: Mint 12 LXDE and Zorin 6 Lite
Two new Linux distros were released recently that I thought would be worthy of the Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge. For those of you who are new, I have an Asus EeePC 701 4g Surf netbook. It is basically the first and in my opinion the best generation of netbooks although the 4GB hard drive…
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Trench reviews Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Recently Microsoft released the ‘Consumer Preview’. aka release candidate or public beta, of Windows 8. I had heard good and bad things about it so I decided to give it a try. The first thing I noticed was how easy it was to install. It wasn’t as fast a Linux installation but faster than any…
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Trench reviews Linux desktops
I thought that I could be this awesome Linux reviewer since I used to love trying every new distro that came out then two things happened. The first is that I found the perfect distro, in my opinion, in Zorin. The second was that the quality of desktops has recently degraded. So instead of reviewing…
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Review of Linux Mint 12 Release Candidate
Why is it that developers feel the need to reinvent the wheel? Or in today’s case why do developers feel the need to make every desktop look like a damn iPad. If I wanted an iPad I would have bought one. I’m digressing. I’ve always been a fan of Linux Mint. As far as Linux…
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