Old Manny Tux Baby

Babies are usually sweet and cute. We all like them. We endeavour them. We hope they grow up to be better then we are.
But that does not happen all the time. Sometimes babies just stay undeveloped and forgotten... That is unfortunately true for human society. Here we have social care for such babies. But Linux world also has some examples like this...
Mandriva Linux was forked from Red Hat project many-many-many years ago. It existed under name Mandrake even before centuries turn. It was developed separately from it's mother and got some babies itself.

One of these babies is Berlios. How good is it? Let's see...

Only One Day to Go

Contest which my blog runs at this moment is due to end soon.
Please be aware that your entry e-mail has to be sent by 11.59pm on the 31.01.2011 to qualify.
If you have not done this yet, please hurry up! Contest will not run long!

Happy Birthday... To Me!

Am I modest person? Maybe... Maybe not.
If I have a blog, I can now officially announce some personal events here.
Today I am turning 34. It's my Birthday. Personal Birthday. Nothing to do with blog's history.
Anyway... Congratulations are welcome!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

One More Guest from East

Do you remember Pet Shop Boys song "Go West"? Sure you do! Today we will not follow their recommendations. We will go East. How far? Japan? Russia? Not, that is too far. I have already told you about one Russian distributive. Today we will see what Latvian developers bring to Linux world.

There is distributive called Austrumi. This is "East" in Latvian. So, let's go East.
Austrumi is very light distro, just around 120 Mb. It can easily fit to business card size CD. That is why Austrumi will not be listed among distributives you can get via my Buy Linux CDs page.
Anyway, business card CD is not my case, I use standard size CD-RW. Image of Austrumi 2.2.5 is downloaded, burnt to CD-RW, reboot, choose to boot from CD. Let's go East!

When Old Is Better Than New, or Comparing Two Ages of Brothers

My first acquittance with Linux happened to be with Slackware-based pocket distributive of SLAX. My first blog posts, then written in Russian and then translated, were written about SLAX.

SLAX was the only slackware-based distro I have tried until recent. And then my way crossed Nimblex.

When you get to Nimblex site, you can easily tell that Nimblex is a brother of SLAX. Same multi-language web page, same "customize your..." section, same menu points. Of course, design is different but that is just a different shirts for brothers.
Download section contains links to Nimblex 2008. CD image which weights just under 200Mb. It is burnt to CD-RW. Reboot. Choose to boot from CD-RW. Let's go!

Contest from Linux Notes from DarkDuck

Here we go!

Contest is open!

All the rules and conditions are described on the Contest page.

Good luck everyone!

Have We Got There Yet?

I have done several attempts to Debian Linux so far. They were both related to Debian itself, or Debian with Mint remix.
Results are not very much promising so far.

But LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a rolling release. Changes are constant there. I was told that there can be a difference when I get newer version.
Let's see.
So, LMDE image is downloaded. It is version 2011.01.

There is kind of mess with versions of LMDE. That's due to error found in 2010.12 32-bit, found right after release. More details here.

ISO file size is more than 700Mb, so CD-RW is not an option this time again. DVD-RW is burnt and loaded into my Toshiba laptop drive. Reboot. Choose to boot from DVD drive. Let's go!