Which Ubuntu should I install? 12.04.1 or 12.10?

As
it happens with every new release of Ubuntu, it is compared to the last
release. And if the last release is an LTS, a comparison is definitely
required to answer - is the new release good enough to motivate users
leave the long term support version and embrace the latest one? My
current review is focused on the same question.


From Ubuntu 12.10 Comparison

I am comparing here the

Snowlinux 4 XFCE Review: The Smoothest one but very very bland!

Lets begin with a note of thanks to the Snowlinux developers - each one of their distro I have tested and/or used, are very stable and give amazing performance. However, I never really liked the themes they use, if Crystal was bland, Glacier is blandest with everything - wallpaper to panel, in white. In Glacier series, the less you speak of the default wallpaper (the Push to Start one), it is

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow LXDE Review: Among the best in LXDE

Fedora has always intrigued me to keep track of the
latest happenings in the Linux world and especially what's brewing at
the RHEL stable! Also, if I think of a comparable distro to Ubuntu,
Fedora is the only legitimate choice! Just like Ubuntu, Fedora also
inspires innumerable spins (like Kororaa, Fuduntu, of which I am a big
fan now!). So, when the release note
of Fedora came on 15th

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow XFCE Review: Works well but a bit bland!

Fedora has always intrigued me to keep track of the latest happenings in the Linux world and especially what's brewing at the RHEL stable! Also, if I think of a comparable distro to Ubuntu, Fedora is the only legitimate choice! Just like Ubuntu, Fedora also inspires innumerable spins (like Kororaa, Fuduntu, of which I am a big fan now!). So, when the release note of Fedora came on 15th Jan, I

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow KDE Review: Pure KDE centric and works very well!

Fedora has always intrigued me to keep track of the latest happenings in the Linux world and especially what's brewing at the RHEL stable! Also, if I think of a comparable distro to Ubuntu, Fedora is the only legitimate choice! Just like Ubuntu, Fedora also inspires innumerable spins (like Kororaa, Fuduntu, of which I am a big fan now!). So, when the release note of Fedora came on 15th Jan, I

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow Gnome Review: Stable and efficient with professional looks but has Gnome 3 agonies!

Fedora has always intrigued me to keep track of the latest happenings in the Linux world and especially what's brewing at the RHEL stable! Also, if I think of a comparable distro to Ubuntu, Fedora is the only legitimate choice! Just like Ubuntu, Fedora also inspires innumerable spins (like Kororaa, Fuduntu, of which I am a big fan now!). So, when the release note of Fedora came on 15th Jan, I

Ultimate Edition 3.5 Review: Ugly but fully loaded!

My first exposure to Ultimate edition was with 3.4. I installed the 64-bit one to my newly bought Core i7 3rd gen. laptop with 8 GB RAM last year, but had to remove it bugged by it's instability. First the default interface is devoid of much aesthetics, Second, effects are too loud and most important, third, instability - not a single day passed with something or the other crashing in the

Fuduntu 2013.1 Review: Simple, effective and fast!

Fuduntu Linux was initially conceptualized to be somewhere between Fedora and Ubuntu by Andrew Wyatt - possibly to combine the fun of Ubuntu with the professionalism of Fedora, I guess. The distro is currently forked from Fedora and has rolling releases with four major updates coming in 2012. Continuing with the same trend, on 7th Jan'13, the first updated release of this year came out for

Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 Review: Better than ever bleeding edge Ubuntu LTS!

Bodhi Linux always has a special place in my Linux OS repertoire for being one of the most lightweight Ubuntu derivatives with Enlightenment 17 as the desktop manager. Another fantastic aspect about Bodhi is "semi-rolling release". In nutshell, it means that though the distro is based on Ubuntu LTS but all major packages are backported to their latest versions available. For example, users of

Snowlinux 4 "Glacier" Mate Review: Fast, light and customizable

I have been a fan of Snowlinux for quite sometime and their Debian spins have always been exceptional - Lightweight, fast and very customizable. The new year release of Snowlinux 4, codenamed "Glacier" is no exception. Based on Debian Wheezy, it has Mate 1.4 as the default desktop environment and uses Linux kernel 3.5.






From Snowlinux 4 Glacier Mate 1.4


I downloaded the 32-bit ISO, about

Best Linux Distro of 2012: A Comparison of the Leading XFCE Distros

With Gnome moving from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 shell, with a corresponding change in overall looks and loss in efficiency, my interest on other desktops like XFCE, KDE and LXDE grew more than ever in 2012. In my best distro series, first I took up my current favorite desktop environment - KDE. The second article covers distros with XFCE desktop environment - my second most favorite.



From Voyager

Voyager 12.10 Review: Xubuntu spiced up and overkilled!

Make no mistake, I really like Xubuntu - for it's simplicity and efficiency! But, the looks of default Xubuntu bore me a lot and most of the time I resort to making transparent panel, adding a nice conky, replacing the bottom panel with a docky, etc. to make it palatable. Functionally, though, I don't have anything to fret about and Xubuntu works as good as any other Linux distro.



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