I did LINUX dialup and still post O.O.B. disc reviews , 3 = the first box
tested .
20090405 .
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Measured on 3 after upgrade . I didn't replace the 3 config. files synaptic asked about and got boot errors but it all seems to work . The knetwork manager installed here makes this my best install on 3 . Has KDE. , unlike Kubuntu , recent versions of " KDE. " dont act like KDE. . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100116 Kubuntu 9.10 _i386
On my 3 core G igabyte , it got sound , flash and native resolution . lacks KDE . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Super OS 9.10 12-29-09
Got sound , wireless , flash on 3 . Lack of kde not a disaster , I put both panels on side/s and it did barely help . Trackpad doesn't side scroll . Seems good at net . 201008 Not good at flash . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Berry100 12-27-09
No kde . Got sound , wireless and many firefox crashes ! White print on white background . Has miss Driller . Didn't work on my 3 core G igabyte board . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Tuquito 3.1 12-27-09
Got sound , wireless , flash on 3 . No English , or less . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Elive 1.9.54
Got sound and wireless . May get kde after install . 1st Elive to get wireless in some time . Prime distro on laptop = old elive now and this might beat the competition . Didn't work on my 3 core G igabyte board .Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Sabayon 8.1, 12-25-09
No kde , got sound and wireless . Didn't work on my 3 core G igabyte board . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20100101 Kademar 4.9.1 '12-26-09
Has KDE " 3.x " ! got sound and wireless . If I get data backup done , I will add it to my multi - boot . Amazing how many distro don't boot right from standard multi setup anymore , even when they let one click a partition boot option during install . Didn't work on my 3 core G igabyte board . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20091226 newest Knoppix
got sound , no wireless . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20091129 • 2009-11-20: Dev. Rel. VENENUX GNU/Linux 0.8 RC2 dvd
O 3; didn't localise when I typed lang=us , but it expected a different keyboard , as the = was not an = . No sound , did debian decide my machine doesn't use free enough sound hardware ? No wireless , did debian decide my machine doesn't use free enough wireless hardware ?
Partition install didn't succeed at booting , weird junk in grub directory , didn't list self in menu.lst . Impossible to localize as [ctrl][alt][backspace] doesn't restart the graphics system . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade . I think I'd like to see linux distributions actually get better over time , unlike the trend after the Malware Tsunami of 2007 . This doesn't just come from David Fox dying . While a slight improvement , google sites disappoints when one likes large print . And they slightly botched the move . Suddenly the fan in my laptop does occasionally work now , this part of linux evidences slow improvements .
20091118 VectorLinux 6.0 "KDE-Classic" edition
On 3 ; Overwrote MBR. despite my instructions not to ! After restoring grub. . pointing at
the partition got a grub menu . That's another gross error when the installer says it's using
LILO. . Gui. never came up ! Yet another gross failure masquerading as a linux
distribution . Not good on G .
20091115 simply MEPIS 8.0.12 _32 and _64
Optical on 3 . Has KDE 3 and not an imitation of jwm masquerading as KDE . No sound , native resolution . My wireless = the same as the ee pc , which comes with linux , so the failure here = AWFUL ! Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade . 20100116 On G , it failed to get the 1440x900 resolution right but cycled through several wrong resolutions , got flash .
20091006 simply MEPIS 8.0.10 _32 and _64
Optical on 3 . Has KDE 3 and not an imitation of jwm masquerading as KDE . Got sound , native resolution . My wireless = the same as the ee pc , which comes with linux , so failing here = AWFUL ! Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade . 20100116 On G , it failed to get the 1440x900 resolution right but cycled through several wrong resolutions , got flash .
20090818 Anubis MEPIS. from june
minstall worked on 3 and it played foamy fine . Thus it got native resolution , sound , wireless and flash right out of the box . The kde. 3.x works fine . Repositories list my 2 favorite games . Lost sound after installing some packages . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090818 Kademar 4.8 and 4.9
4.8 looked great as live on 3 . HD install = kernel panick for both , so I dumped Mint on the partition . kdemar = the password , not kademar . 4.9 managed to go on the usb. stick fine . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090817 Mint , KDE version
Lacks KDE 3.x . Got Wireless , sound , flash . Shockingly good considering the window environment gives no major features over jwm and consumes much more ram. etc. . Trivial administration tasks under kde3.x = horrible on the HD. install ; I rebooted into a simply MEPIS partition and got my work done 20090818 . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090722 ULTILEX 4.0.0
On 3 the SLAX works well with sound , KDE 3.x , flash playing under konqueror over my wireless web access . Some of the other OSes like puppy do work . Native screen resolution detected correctly . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090707 a MEPIS
After finally grafting in the xorg.conf from the latest Elive test release , this works very well on 3 . Didn't test kworldclock as my background wallpaper as internet just came back . Louder volume and sound stays intelligible after hours of use , unlike many a distro . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090707 AV Linux
The openbox wm looks good on 3 . No sond or wireless . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090707 Antix MEPIS m82 public test
Got wireless , flash and sound . But no KDE3. O.k. Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090707 latest Elive test
Annoying to graft in KDE3. with internet flaking . Annoying wireless . Same good stuff iff you like Enlightenment micro text UI. . Sound not improved , vs new - ish MEPIS . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090707 ANUBIS _64 bit
MEPIS based , has KDE3. Did wireless , sound and clearly played back Foamy's swear words from ill will press . Missing Konqueror . Krusader lacks file size view feature of Konqueror . Typing :
su -
minstall
, should let me succeed at installing to hard drive . Nice wireless tool UI. . Tended not to let one install software from repository while running from cd. , possibly from flaky internet here . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090608 GRML 2009.05
on x , jwm worked . Install to hd. went badly . [ctrl] + doesn't always work but OS. does cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress .
20090528 latest MINT
Got sound , wireless , native resolution of screen . Desktop very smooth but poorly conceived . Didn't succeed at x restart in different desktop environment on LIVE cd . Repositories added flash fine . Kuickshow went in fine too . If it can KDE. , and I don't mean that dead common stupid recent fork away from KDE. this distro should work well . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090504 PCLinuxOS 2009
On 3 it does get wireless and more software in the repositories makes this viable , unlike before . Never worked out on x . Did flash vid fine and I'm writing from it now . Good KDE. oob. and native resolution . I dislike the freeciv in the base repositories . Kuickshow still displays noise instead of pictures even after replacing extra parts of the graphics system from the basic repositories . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090430 simply MEPIS 8.0.06 64 bit
On 3 , Got sound , KDE. , only native resolution . No wireless . Test terminated , no - I don't care if some extra tweaking might change the wireless situation . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090428 simply MEPIS 8.0.06 32 bit
On 3 , Got sound , KDE. , only native resolution . No wireless . Test terminated , no - I don't care if some extra tweaking might change the wireless situation . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090423 Sidux1.09 kde full
Got sound and nice resolution on G . Sound but no wireless on 3 . No , I won't waste time on your ethernet fantasies when hundreds of other distributions would like a review too . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090423 Calculate x64
Botched screen on 3 after I told it the resolution . No wireless on 3 . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090423 ELive 1.7.24 8-27/09
Just added KDE 3 to hd install , doesn't seem as good as my upgraded install but does flash etc. fine . After KDE. install , wireless gets much easier after adding Epanel to KDE.'s panel . 20090429 Maybe my new main distro as it currently sees the partitions of other distro.'s ok. . 2009.06.18 Suspend to disk MORE than doubles battery life , indicating that it doesn't just shut down one core . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090423 antiXmepis 20090211
No wireless and no further review . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090423 Frugalware 1.6 final 686
Would not install on 3 .
20090415 Chakra 686 - 090218alpha2
Needs KDE . Got wireless , sound , flash . Looks good iff you can get real KDE . 20090423 hd install hung at desktop . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090415 Kubuntu w actual KDE 3.x
Has KDE , much better UI. than last version of distro . Got native resolution on 3 . Internet failed on wireless despite Knetworkmanager seeing the available networks . Ether net also failed . Couldn't test sound or flash . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090411 Calculate
Didn't get KDE on Live running distro despite evidence in synaptic that it can get KDE3 . Very bad U.I. . They should have stuck to jwm. so they would waste less ram etc. . Got internet over ethernet cable .
20090411 Mint 6 KDE.
Didn't get KDE on Live running distro despite evidence in synaptic that it can get KDE3 . Very bad U.I. . They should have stuck to jwm. so they would waste less ram etc. . Got internet over ethernet cable . Sound worked . Didn't initially boot on 3 but it booted on David's laptop . Wiping giant smudges off disk and spinning it very fast in another laptop did clean it enough to boot on 3 .
20090411 SLAX 'now'
ksr--wKDE 3.x works fine . Sound worked . Only got native resolution of laptop 3 . Wireless didn't work . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090405 Elive got upgraded
Tended to freeze when I opened 90 browser tabs , unlike Sabayon 4 . Everything seems to work fine . 20090411 still tends to lose sound quality if pandora.com goes through some power saving state . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade .
20090330 Untangle 602
Shares stuff out fine but doesn't come with squid caching for my virtual rack . Refused to recieve DSL. from nic vs onboard ethernet but a re-install fixed that . Very good at letting box 2 route .
20090330 Puppy , latest
Burn didn't verify but worked fine on 3 . -wireless but potentially fixable . An impressive little monster .
20090324 PCLinuxOS and MEPIS 8 , latest
Both = good . I'm using 2 rc back as the MEPIS on 3 and I suspect a different RC was better on x . Current plan = use MEPIS as prime distro on x as it saw everything including a driver specifically for the new ip4200 printer . MEPIS also did pppoe with great ease . The switch will wait until we get settings for the 'network' worked out . I like the new PCLinuxOS but after I download a couple applications on MEPIS PCLinuxOS still suffers from lack of working devices . Both suffer a critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade ..
20090222 Sidux
This one got sound on g . I didn't test it on x . It might make a wired connection and then one might manage to fix the wireless . Suffers critical defect , distro fails to cycle through extra resolutions after [ctrl][alt][+] keypress which worked for over half a decade ..