Linux Mint 8 LXDE CE Review: LXDE Done Right
Trent and I were both looking forward to the release of the Linux Mint LXDE Community Edition for various reasons. Luckily for us, Kendall (maintainer of the Linux Mint Fluxbox CE) pointed us to the...
View ArticlePeppermint OS: a review
What do you get when you combine the flexibility, versatility and ease of maintenance of Ubuntu, the blinding speed and simplicity of LXDE, and a focus on social media and the cloud? You get Peppermint...
View ArticlePeppermint: Ask and they deliver
Wow, got a lot of traffic on the review I posted Monday about the new Peppermint OS! I wanted to post a quick update to that review, because things move fast in the new Linux distro world, and the...
View ArticleLinux Mint 9: A First Look
The folks over at Linux Mint have just released their newest, latest and greatest, Linux Mint 9 “Isadora”. This time, though, instead of having a single LiveCD to Rule Them All, they offer a LiveCD,...
View ArticleThoughts on Google Chrome (stable) for Linux
As many of you are already aware, Google Chrome stable was released for the Linux platform on May 25th. Google Chrome has been one of the fastest growing browsers, and a stable release for Linux has...
View ArticleClementine 0.4: Amarok 1.4 reborn!
I’ve lamented since last year that KDE’s radical change in direction left me — and a lot of others — going on an app-hunt. I’m really not a fan of the new Amarok, and I’ve been as yet unsuccessful in...
View ArticleMidori 0.2.6: Simple, lightweight, but still needs work
In my ongoing search for something with which to tinker, I’ve occasionally run across the Midori browser, a fully GTK+2 integrated, WebKit-based browser with a focus on being lightweight and simple. It...
View ArticleLinux Mint 9 LXDE: A Quick Glance
Breaking with past tradition, the Linux Mint folks have done away with “Community Editions”, instead bringing the non-Gnome flavors of Mint fully under the Mint umbrella. Linux Mint 9 LXDE is now in...
View ArticlePeppermint Two: Faster, slicker, and easier than ever
It’s been a little over a year since I reviewed the first Peppermint OS, and while I liked the first effort on this new project, I’ve been really looking forward to Peppermint Two. Well, my wait was...
View ArticleGoogle Music: Music in the cloud
Back in early June of this year, most likely scrambling to steal some of the thunder from Apple’s musical cloud offering announcement, Google had announced their own cloud-centric approach to music,...
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