Random thoughts and observations
A new version of the Puppy Linux live CD has been released. I’ve been playing with Puppy since December and it’s definitely the best live Linux distro out there. Better than Knoppix? It’s horses for courses, but I can’t see much sense in running a fully featured distro from a CD for everyday use. It [...]
It’s remarkable that you can store a computer operating system on a USB stick and boot from it. I’ve known this for a while, but only tried it for the first time today and I’m impressed. The distro I’m using is MCNLive, codename Jordaan. It’s based on Mandriva and comes from The Netherlands. The download [...]
The popular Opera web browser is now available without advertising. Although unobtrusive, I never liked having the ads there and used Opera infrequently. I’m now more inclined to use it on a regular basis. Like Firefox and Mozilla, it’s cross-platform and can be used in Linux or Windows. Why did they remove the ads: “Opera’s [...]
I’m hooked on Fluxbox as a window manager in Linux. I’m using it in Puppy and felt motivated to install it for Kanotix on my Linux hard drive. It looks good and it’s blindingly fast. My favorite theme is Meta, which gives a large font size for the menu and the desktop has a clear [...]
