Linux Review

Linux Mint 11 With LXDE Released

2011-07-15T07:10:00.000-07:00

Linux Mint 11 With LXDE Desktop

New features at a glance:

The Software Manager
- UI improvements
- New splash screen
- Fonts category
- More accurate package information
- More application icons by default
- More accurate search by default
The Update Manager
- Performance boosts
- Improved dependencies handling
- Better changelog retrieval
- UI improvements
The Desktop Settings tool
- “Desktop-agnostic”, detection and upcoming compatibility with other desktops
- New setting for the fortunes in the terminal
Artwork improvements
- Overlay scrollbars, plymouth, Mint-X, search add-on.
System improvements
- new “apt download” command
- Adobe flash plugins

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 11 LXDE“.
Changes since RC1:
GDM replaces LXDM as the default login manager (this should address the sporadic issue of X not loading from the live session)Release notes:

Known issues
- Moonlight
Important information
- Overlay scrollbars
- Black splash screens
- Local repository and GnomePPP

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Release notes”.

System requirements:

x86 processor
256 MB RAM
3 GB of disk space
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD/DVD drive or USB port

For more information visit http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/135:distronews/468815:linux-mint-11-lxde-rc2-released

Release Note Pattimura Blankon 7.0 Beta 2

2011-07-14T03:00:00.000-07:00

Internet, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

On this day the development team of BlankOn released BlankOn 7.0 Beta 2 Pattimura. This publication is printed CD BlankOn 7.0 Beta 2 Pattimura for i386 and amd64.
BlankOn 7.0 Beta 2 can be downloaded at the following address:
http://cdimage.blankonlinux.or.id/blankon/rilis/7.0/beta-2/
There are some things new in Beta 2, namely:

Using the panel BlankOn destopnya interface.
Improvement of Contents folder example
Using Kernel 3

There are several known issues found in Beta 2 Release 7.0 BlankOn

http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/599 (f1 still refer ghelp: gnome help - document not found)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/673 (language packs are not compatible)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/687 (plymouth information eject the CD cover)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/698 ([blankon-panel] default application icon is not legible)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/709 (Splash LibreOffice rudimentary)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/710 ([kernel] modules missing rtl)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/711 (some usb modems are not compatible)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/724 ([blankon-panel] hard drive on the mount and mount to the server does not appear in places)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/729 (blankon theme of the panel has not included)
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/730 (Sound indicator has not emerged) 11. http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/ticket/731 (wireless network BCM4312 802.11b / g LP-PHY can not yet walk)

If you find a problem with the Beta 2 release please report to:
http://dev.blankonlinux.or.id/newticket
Target Release Candidate 1 is coming:

- Incorporating a theme Gtk3

- Improve and beautify the interface

- Improving the guidebook

On behalf of Tim BlankOn Developers

Rahman Yusri Aftian

CentOS 6.0 Release

2011-07-12T10:22:00.000-07:00

CentOS 6.0 Release

CentOS 6.0, a Linux distribution built from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, has been released: " Centos 6.0 available of CentOS 6.0 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.0 is based on the upstream release EL 6.0 and includes packages. Centos 6.0 has ben release on July 10th 2011
Download for i386 Download
Download for x86_64 Download

PCLinuxOS Review

2011-07-12T10:14:00.000-07:00

Desktop Options and Integration
You chose from 2 desktops that available on PCLinuxOS

KDE
LXDE

"The first thing a user might notice is that, out of the box, PCLinuxOS is set up with both NVidia and ATI fglrx support built in. No matter which type of graphics card is on the machine, PCLinuxOS — with the LXDE desktop — should work great! With either Lubuntu or Knoppix (should anyone actually use Knoppix as a desktop distribution), it is likely that either proprietary or extra drivers will need to be installed to get the same working graphics as found in the out of the box experience of PCLinuxOS"

Package Management

PCLinuxOS is based on Mandriva, so it uses RPMs. I will admit that I've always been a fan of RPM and Yum for managing packages

Control Panels

Control panel you can see look like in left image, that was very simple and user friendly. For this relase PClinuxOS has lot of change and they think about user, to make their user easy to use

Applications: A Change Of Pace

This distribution includes some unusual (and welcome) suspects. This list includes:

Claws Mail: E-mail clients.
Bleachbit: Outstanding system cleaning application.
Clementine: DAAP server.
Flashplayer-plugin: .
The Gimp:GNU Image Manipulation Program, photo editor

Wellcome

2011-07-05T14:25:00.001-07:00

Wellcome