Category: Linux

  • Ryan Orsers’ Review of Hardy Heron Alpha 3

    I installed the new Hardy Heron Alpha 3 in Virtual Box. I thought how hard could it be to use an alpha Operating System? All I knew was I wasn’t installing Hardy Heron on my laptop until it is in beta. I thought it should be easy to use. Easy to update, well I was…

  • Cisco and how it helps you learn better

    I am just going to talk about how Cisco helped myself learn better. I go to highschool where a teacher teaches Cisco. I thought, I would love to learn about networking, so I decided to try it out. Best of all it was one of the best courses I have ever taken, as I helped…

  • How to get iTunes working in Ubuntu Gutsy

    Did you ever want to use your iPod without Windows or Macintosh? Have you tried to run iTunes in Linux but never could be able to? Here is the answer: You will need to get iTunes 7.4.3.1 which you can download here. After you download iTunes 7.4.3.1 install it with wine. (any wine that is…

  • Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year Part 2

    Yah. The second and final part of this series on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year.  System configuration. Everyone has to configure the OS at some time. Ubuntu wants you to scroll through a bunch of icons on the System dropdown menu, which is so old-school…

  • Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year Part 1

    A 2 Part cage match between the Gutsy Gibbon and the Macintosh Leopard: Who will win? This is an in depth article about how the two Operating systems compare. I personally have not used Leopard but I have tried it out on a demo computer at the store. It is very cool. I have used…

  • Mandriva One 2008.0 Review

    This installation of Mandriva 2008 only took about 20 Minutes. I installed the KDE Live CD onto my laptop harddrive. Mandriva has its ups and downs though this is the first distro that I have used in the last few weeks that will actually configure your wireless and nvidia graphics card for you, and the…

  • Open SuSE Linux 10.2 Review

    OpenSuSE 10.2 Review: I know its’ a little late for this now because 10.3 is out, but I am going to review OpenSuSE Linux 10.2 anyways. Here are the pros: Uses Gnome, KDE, or any other Window Manager that you can select from a list. Works on my laptop, though I did need to put…

  • CentOS 5.0 Review:

    CentOS 5.0 Review First off, this review isn’t the easiest to do since I have tried so many other distributions before this one: Vector, Xubuntu 6.06 – 6.06.1, Ubuntu 6.06 – 7.10, Fedora 7, OpenSuSE 10.1 – 10.3, and now CentOS. Which if you count all of them up they add up to eleven! Though…

  • Timeline for the next few weeks:

    Hello everyone! I have decided to review a lot of Linux distributions over the next few weeks. The first Linux Distro that I am going to review is CentOS 5.0. I have already installed CentOS and the review should come out in the next few days or so, when I have played with it enough.…

  • 2007/11/05 New OS on my Laptop

    I now dual boot OpenSuSE linux with Windows XP Pro. I have to use XP for School work and I use OpenSuSE for fun. So far it works right out of the box except for wireless since it does not see the access point. Thats all for now, Ryan Orser