Linux Reviews

Linux : Reviews : SUSE 9.0: A Distro Worth Paying For
Posted: ( Thu 15th Jan 2004 10:00:04[AM] UTC )
SUSE 9 offers a superb printed manual, a great installation interface, a modern KDE system in addition to the more standard, older GNOME interface, and a new kernel build. It's easy to see why Novell thought enough of the software to buy the company.

Linux : Reviews : Mandrake Linux 10 Preview
Posted: ( Fri 9th Jan 2004 06:53:31[AM] UTC )
Mandrake Linux 10.0-preview edition pretty much defines the shape of things to come in Linux land in 2004. With Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 beta and XFree86 4.4 beta, it doesn't leave much to be desired.

Linux : Reviews : Six multifunction printers for Linux
Posted: ( Thu 11th Dec 2003 05:26:44[PM] UTC )
Have you been looking for an "All-in-one" (aka known as MFP, multi-function printer) for your Linux desktop? So have we, with somewhat mixed results. We found no MFPs in our price range (under $500.00) which are shipped with drivers for Linux. But we did find a number of MFPs which are usable on Linux machines, thanks to free software drivers available either with your Linux distribution or on the Internet.

Linux : Reviews : Review: StarOffice 7 -- innovation in action
Posted: ( Thu 11th Dec 2003 05:26:44[PM] UTC )
Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7, released November 12, offers significant advantages in performance, usability, and stability over rival commercial office suites, including Microsoft Office. However, when the comparison is to OpenOffice.org version 1.1, the open source project from which StarOffice takes its code, it's harder to say where the advantage lies.

Linux : Reviews : Hancom Office 2.01 Standard for Linux
Posted: ( Wed 24th Apr 2002 12:56:13[PM] UTC )
Hancom Office 2.01 is the latest version from the Korean company Hancom Linux, released only a few days ago. The company used to offer a Windows version of their product, but they have since completely focused on the Linux platform, even though their product is pretty portable as it is based almost solely in the Qt 3 tooklkit.

Linux : Reviews : SuSE Linux 8.0 Beta
Posted: ( Fri 19th Apr 2002 09:07:40[AM] UTC )
All told, SuSE have created another excellent rendition of their popular Linux distribution. The installation, even (or, rather, especially) on a laptop, was smooth and worked without a hitch -- no small feat for installing Linux on a nearly new laptop, an undertaking often more likely to end in aggravation than success.

Linux : Reviews : Red Hat 7.3 beta
Posted: ( Wed 17th Apr 2002 07:41:21[AM] UTC )
New beta distribution includes many of the recent releases from KDE, XFree86, Mozilla and other projects, making it easy, stable and powerful on your desktop.

Linux : Reviews : SuSE Linux eMail Server III
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Apr 2002 07:55:57[AM] UTC )
SuSE\'s Linux eMail Server III has an amazing number of features integrated into its GUI, including all of the DNS functions for handling virtual domains and hosts. If I were a brand new mail administrator this program would save me hours and hours of fussing with Sendmail and BIND and numerous other tools.

Linux : Reviews : Slackware Linux 8.0
Posted: ( Thu 9th Aug 2001 02:49:45[AM] UTC )
Even with most current OSes moving to a more automated method of installation and maintenance, Slackware has always maintained its simple, hands-on approach. This helps the user learn Linux commands and configuration quickly, and learn them correctly. This is quite possibly the reason Slackware has lasted so long. Slackware takes a completely different perspective and focuses on learning through practice -- or just using that power if you're a more advanced user. Which is maybe the thing that makes Slackware so popular. It is well-known within the Linux community that Slackware takes pride in simplicity. Slackware 8 is no exception to this rule, as it assures you'll be up and running with the likes of XFree86 4.1.0 and kernel 2.4.5 in no time.

Linux : Reviews : Python for the PalmOS
Posted: ( Mon 6th Aug 2001 12:56:15[AM] UTC )
Pippy is a port of (a subset of) Python to the PalmOS. With Pippy, Python programmers can create custom applications to run on Palm devices, as well as use Pippy as an interactive environment directly on the Palm. David Mertzevaluates the strengths and limitations of Pippy as a means of implementing Palm applications.

Linux : Reviews : Linux Jagged Alliance2
Posted: ( Mon 30th Jul 2001 01:33:58[AM] UTC )
The award winning game, Jagged Alliance 2, has now been ported to the Linux platform by Tribsoft. While there are a few bugs in the software, and the possibility of a patch for it from Tribsoft is uncertain, they do not detract from the core of the game itself. If you like strategy, and more specifically, realistic turn based strategy, JA2 is probably for you. And once you have learned to play it well you can play it all over at a harder level, with different characters, and so on. Certainly a repeat player.

Linux : Reviews : Kylix: The development tool for commercial Linux development
Posted: ( Sun 15th Jul 2001 09:13:34[PM] UTC )
Kylix represents an important and, hopefully, successful step for program development for the Linux operating system. It is an IDE for the creation of software. More importantly, it is a rapid application development (RAD) tool that provides components for quick development of database connectivity, Internet content and graphical user interfaces. It delivers more than any other commercial equivalent for Linux through its business-oriented components. Although Kylix is an exciting product, it does cater to a certain audience: existing Delphi programmers and development teams aiming for portability of an enterprise/business application to Linux and Windows. The main problem, of course, is the Object Pascal programming language itself. It might not be enough to convince C/C++ programming shops to swap over to Kylix yet. But, Borland has bravely paved the way for commercial development on Linux.

Linux : Reviews : SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional
Posted: ( Fri 6th Jul 2001 08:32:27[PM] UTC )
"I am impressed with the ease of installation and configuration of this latest SuSE product. They have taken great care to provide their customer with the highest quality Linux system that I have used to date. Although there are some notable shortcomings, most of which are not "deal killers", I would recommend this distribution to anyone regardless of their expertise with Linux systems."

Linux : Reviews : KWord in action
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jul 2001 07:54:23[PM] UTC )
"I stumbled across KOffice when a Linux guru friend suggested it to me. Personally, I wouldn't want to switch applications, let alone an operating system, just to use an office suite. Yet now I was stuck between upgrading to Office XP or making the bold move to install Linux and Koffice 1.1 Beta 3. I thought, "why not?" since Linux will always be free, no one person has control over it, and I won't be harassed five years later."

Linux : Reviews : Mandrake Single Network Firewall
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jul 2001 07:50:01[PM] UTC )
"I shall talk about Single Network Firewall from a consultant's viewpoint. That is, I will talk about how its function helps me as a security consultant to accomplish my work. I will talk little on its technical merits, as I personally don't think wrestling with Single Network Firewall for just one day qualifies me to talk about its technical flaws, or merits, or the lack thereof."