tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376185442012-01-13T05:09:25.715-08:00KnoLinuxGuy is a self described techie who loves learning new and exciting technologies. Years of working as a Technical Trainer fostered a love of passing on knowledge so Blogs seem like a good way to educate people on items without making everyone travel too much. The focus of information found on KnoLinux is to help the techie and non-techie people of the world learn about the latest and greatest Linux Distro. Kevin lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wonderful wife Suzanne. Cheers!!!KnoWirelessGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04572729142574901834noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37618544.post-61002354570812031852010-04-18T20:07:00.000-07:002010-04-18T20:10:05.841-07:00

So as I got some feedback from my last review, a couple of oddities...first, the developer himself told me that the distro had locked repositories...ummm...why would you ever put anything out and then support for only a few months? This is why I have an issue with the hundreds of distros out there, many of which are just recycled parts of main systems, removing Firefox due to hated of copyright..

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I see that Yahoo! is getting replaced by another party. First, my former colleagues at T-Mobile realized how much Yahoo! was losing them in content sales and not producing in search revenue, now I see Ubuntu is probably realizing the same thing...or...they are realizing that since the Yahoo! Bing deal has passed federal acceptance, they now realize that Microsoft, and not some non-evil empire

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I used to review linux, some of you may remember either knolinux or new2linux websites. Every once and a while a former reader would email and ask, "what happened?" How do you explain certain things in life? It wasn't health, family, ideological changes, or anything even close to resembling something dramatic. I simply took a new job...at Microsoft. No, I am not a programmer, so it wasn't even

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Last fall we wrote a review that was generally well received on Simply Mepis 6.0. This is a very nice package out of West Virginia that takes KDE to Ubuntu in a more polished and solid way than even Kubuntu can do. Much was made by people, even on Distrowatch about little coming from the Mepis camp over the last couple of months, and then right around Christmas, sure enough here comes a nice

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Well, my last blog entry was about how I blogged myself into debt by actually having too many people read my blog. Imagine that, too many people doing what you want them to do. I still think there is a problem on the server that I was operating on, due to the fact that with only one blog posting I was still using nearly 1 GB an hour of traffic. For the non-technical that is about the same that a

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So the other day I was reading the Weekly review on distrowatch.com and was checking out a recent tidbit on Linux XP that seems to have caused quite a stir on their site. Seems that for the past 7 days, Linux XP has surpassed Ubuntu for number one on their list. To quote Ladislav"So why did so many of you click? Is it the catchy name or the attraction of a Linux system resembling a more familiar

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Well, this story is about the downside of blogging. Most articles you read are on how to create a website, drive traffic, blog for free, blah, blah, and of course blah...So I had already purchased a website for my wireless consulting company a few years back at godaddy.com called knowireless. Catchy name huh? My wife came up with that one. So when I started to blog about wireless on blogger.com,

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The history of Freespire is like a movie plot, with nuances of a Phoenix rising from ashes, Rocky, Mission Impossible and a bit of Ground Hog day all wrapped up in a single OS. Born as OS to directly rival Windows, the original name of Lindows sparked some concerns in Redmond and many lawsuits later a new name was born: Linspire. Now many in the Linux community did not like the approach taken by

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Hello to all who may have stumbled onto my new site. Well, as a frustrated Linux enthusiast who hates the searching and searching to find out what distro I should be using, testing and testing hours on end (which does not bode too well with my wife) I thought I might offer some help with taking my knowledge of Linux to the masses. I am not out to rule the world, offer incite not found on other

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When I first played with Xandros back a few years, it was being touted as the distribution that actually worked and could be a Windows replacement for new users. At the time, I was new to Linux and willing to take that risk and well, wasn't impressed. I then got a hold of a 3.0 distro and loaded it on my wife's laptop so she could stop getting killed by malware and popups. She liked some things

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So a couple of people have told me so far in my first week of this, that the one distro I need to take a look at is PCLinuxOS. I can say that I tried this distro once on referral and loaded the Live disk which is its trade mark, saw that it was basically a repackaged Mandrake distro and stopped. This is a personal issue I have, with anything resembling Mandrake. A bit of history between myself

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SimplyMepis 6.0 has been around for a bit now, but in my effort to review the most popular and easiest distros marketed today, there simply is no way to skip over this product. Mepis itself is not too new, having been around in one form or another for a couple of years. Recently, Warren Woodford moved his product to be based on Ubuntu which is a really strong distro and extremely popular.

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Ubuntu is an enigma. How can an upstart Linux project go directly to the top in little over 2 years? In a recent survey (that we linked to on our site here as well) on Desktop Linux News, they found that nearly 30% of respondents showed they were on board with this South African (they claim world wide, but behind them is Canonical Ltd, which according to Wikipedia is a private company owned and

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So back in 2004, my wife bought me my laptop for Valentine's day. I know, how romantic right? Well, I was a consultant who lived in hotels all week and had nothing but extra time on my hands and so she knew that this would keep me busy on those nights when I was bored to tears. The problem was that my laptop was 64 bit. At that time the amount of 64 bit OS's out there was absolutely zero. Nada.

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Updated September 20th, 2006:I received the following email from the Dreamlinux team:Dreamlinux Works Edition 2.1We are disposing the version 2.1 Dreamlinux Works Edition.This release correct some problems of the old version, as itbrings more modules to harware detection.Automount, Internet Sharing, NTFS-3G, Powernow and others,and a general actualization through Debian Testing repositories,

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Updated 11/7/06 - Recently, ELive announced that they have an unstable test for 0.5.2, which if you wish to know, has mostly bug fixes and very little in the way of a change to the install process or look and feel. Therefore, we will just update the one screen we noticed to be different and state that the system does seem to run faster on our test platforms. However, it didn't run on an older HP

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When I first got in the Linux movement back in the late 1990's, I went out and purchased a couple of distros to play with. The first of these was Mandrake-Linux and I was always happy with how Mandrake worked, especially on the installer side of the house. But as with anything, as soon as anyone makes any money at anything, someone sues and so the name Mandrake is being tied up with some silly

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While people want to test out and find the best linux, one of the hardest parts is to understand where they need to start. That is one of the main goals here at KnoLinux, to pull in as much information and help people new to Linux decide which one would be right for them.We have put together a little chart to help you see where a package sits and how it compares on basic issues of Complexity and

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Taking the Linux Plunge – Commercial versus Community; which path is right for you and your hardware This article was first published on Linuxforums.org, writen by me. The only reason I am posting here is due to missing graphics. When Microsoft announced the end of support for Windows 98 and Millennium Edition on June 30th, there was a lot of talk of these users migrating over to Linux

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The recent news of Novell and Microsoft teaming up is creating a wave of hatred and angst in the Linux community. In a world that is fragile as taking on one of the largest monopolies in the world, this is the last thing Linux needed, but a step that was done for one simple reason: profits. Some have mentioned that this announcement was likely due to the recent Oracle release of their own version

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A recent announcement on Distrowatch.com for a new distro called gNewSense perked my attention. It seems that the Free Software Foundation, the group headed by Richard M Stallman, otherwise known as RMS, sponsored this project and basically was conceived "due to Frustrated by many Linux distributions which include (or make it easy to include) non-free software in their products, the Free Software

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