The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Trench’s adventures in Linux: Zorin OS 12 Core

    As far as Linux distros go, I’ve been a fan of Zorin OS for years. I still have fond memories of using Zorin OS 5 Core for longer than I use most Linux distros. The problem was, that in my opinion, the quality of Zorin OS Core fell off in the following years. With Zorin…

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  • The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge: Zorin OS 11 Lite

    I’ve been a fan of the Zorin OS Linux distro for a while now. Their Core OS is a great Linux distro for those just getting into Linux if they’re coming from a Windows background. It’s also good for regular Linux users if you just want to install a distro and just have it work…

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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: 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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’s Adventures in Linux: Music Players

    The other day I posted about how I was finally able to install Linux (specifically Zorin OS) on my Toshiba Satellite. I said that my laptop was no longer Linux-proof but it may still be Linux resistant. My Satellite is a 64-bit computer so I installed the 64-bit version of Zorin OS. The OS dragged…

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  • The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge Returns

    So my Asus EeePC 701 4G Surf came out of active duty recently. So I’ve been able to see if I can find any Linux distros that would not only fit on the 4GB hard drive bit would work well also. At first, I went to my standby and installed Zorin OS 5 Lite. I…

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