Category Archives: Linux Extras

Ground Realities and Trying to Change (Changing) Linux Customer Base

Posted on June 17, 2011 by asokaplus

It is time for me to have a pause and see the ground realities, see customer behaviour and business politics. I am in defense of change (of course not Sea Change) for good with lot of nice cute gadgets like … Continue reading →

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Final Count Down Linux-100

Posted on March 13, 2011 by asokaplus

I am almost completing 18 months come end of March of downloading and testing Linux Live CDs and lately few of the DVDs. All good things have to come to an end and with Sinhala Linux coming to the scene … Continue reading →

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LinuxExtras-CloudOS-JoliOS-1.2-09

Posted on March 13, 2011 by asokaplus

Cloud computing and Cloud OS had been one of my interests for some time. To begin with I started with Dropbox which is a nice way to share ones data with friends especially those who are away and abroad. I … Continue reading →

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LinuxExtras-Debain-6-08

Posted on March 13, 2011 by asokaplus

In between World Cup Cricket, my work and students examinations, I found time to install Debian 6.0 KDE CD version, in one of my old IBM computer with 512 RAM. Unlike in the good old days new Linux distributions especially … Continue reading →

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LinusExtras-Gentoo-11-10

Posted on March 13, 2011 by asokaplus

Gentoo was my last conversion or convergence. I had seen a Gentoo live CD (probably 2008) and KiWi Linux (I may be wrong here) which was probably a Gentoo Linux derivative but never caught my eye till I discovered XBMC … Continue reading →

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LinuxExtras-Sabayon-5.5-07

Posted on March 6, 2011 by asokaplus

The new editions of Sabayon 5.5 are pretty good. Their speciality latest XMBC is good too. For the first time I was able to get XMBC running in my old IBM computer with inbuilt graphic card meager 1 GiB RAM … Continue reading →

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Linux-100-Extras-Knoppix-6.4.-Updates

Posted on March 1, 2011 by asokaplus

In spite of work, Cricket World Cup, I found time to test Knoppix 6.4 CD/DVD and both are equally good and can be installed into the hard disk. In the past after various tricks I managed to install Knoppix in … Continue reading →

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Linux100-Extras-ArtistX-06

Posted on February 18, 2011 by asokaplus

ArtistX was not in my original 100 purely because of its heavy weight and my inability download. But I downloaded it after completing Live CD/ DVD 100 and was impressed by it. Capacity was 2.4 but the new version is … Continue reading →

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Why I Love K-Torrents?

Posted on February 10, 2011 by asokaplus

1.It lets one controls the download speed so others in the shared network has band width 2.It is timed to nanoseconds of bit and bytes transfer 3. It is graphical 4. It is a workhorse 5. It never breaks down … Continue reading →

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Linux-100-Extras-Fedora14-04

Posted on February 6, 2011 by asokaplus

Another new version (14 a brand new conceptually) has come out after I felt out of with Fedora 3 (Redhat 8 and 9 were my favorites) and I have been looking at it from version 9 (also because of ADIOS … Continue reading →

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