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Trench’s adventures in Linux: Zorin OS 9 Lite takes the EEE PC challenge
Recently Zorin OS released the Lite version of their Ubuntu based Linux distro. It is intended for older and low powered computers so I was anxious to see how it would fare on my Asus EEE PC 701 4G Surf. For those of you new to this feature the 4G means it only has a…
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Trench’s Adventures in Linux: The Android Desktop Experience
The other day I found a Linux distro that is supposed to turn your PC into an Android device. Not only that but the distro had a variation just for EEE PCs. So I fired up the old 4G Surf and installed this particular distro. It installed fine and there was plenty of space left…
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Trench’s adventures in Linux: Zorin OS 9 Core
Zorin OS Core has been one of my favorite Linux distros since OS 5 Core. Recently they announced the release of Zorin OS 9 Core. Again, this is another distro that I can’t say enough good things about. OS 9 Core is based on Ubuntu 14.04 so it should be supported for a long time.…
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Trench’s adventures in Linux: Linux Mint 17 XFCE
There’s only one thing better than a new Linux Mint release and that’s when they release the new XFCE version of their distro. If you need to get some work done and need everything to just work this is a great distro for that and the XFCE desktop allows it to be used productively on…
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Trench’s Adventures in Linux: TEST ALL THE MINTS
Recently Linux Mint released Linux Mint 17. Before we get to my review there is a little bit of news with this release. According to their release notes Linux Mint will now only be updating their Ubuntu based versions along with every Long Term Support release from Ubuntu going forward. For Linux Mint diehards that…
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Trench’s adventures in Linux: Numix Bluish theme
Tested out a few release candidates and betas this week but since they’re not final versions I’ll wait until the final versions come out before giving them a proper review. Instead I want to tell you about a really great desktop theme for Ubuntu based distros and that would be the Numix Bluish theme by…
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Trench’s adventüres in Linüx: Emmabuntüs 2 and Wine Browser
A few weeks ago after I did my review of Voyager 14.04 I received an e-mail asking me to do a review of another French Linux distro, Emmabuntüs 2. When I went to Distrowatch to read up on it I saw that it was based on Xubuntu and comes with the Cairo Dock already installed.…
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Trench’s further adventures in Linux: SalentOS and wattOS
I have two new Linux recommendations for you this week. The first one is SalentOS, a distro from Italy based on the long-term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu. The one I tested was based on Lubuntu 12.04 although 14.04 is coming out in just a few days. I tried the version that comes with the…
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Review of Voyager Linux 14.04
What can I say about Voyager Linux that I haven’t said before? It’s my favorite Linux distro of choice. It’s based on Xubuntu but surpasses Xubuntu in every way. Not a lot has changed in Voyager but it really doesn’t need to. Again the only complaint I had been the Plank dock. I prefer the…
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