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PCLinuxOS TR4 tested

Sunday, 6. May 2007, 22:21:44

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PCLinuxOS is at an interesting stage. Their website has been down for the duration of my testing. As of this morning, they are back online again. Over the weekend I downloaded TR4 from their temporary forum and gave it a test, now it appears they are online and making TR4 available as a final beta before their next official version release. I couldn't find a readily available page on the site describing PCLinuxOS so had a look at the Wikipedia entry instead. It appears PCLinuxOS split from Mandrake Linux in 2003, working with the LiveCD project, and become a distribution in it's own right. The tagline is "Radically simple". Fair enough.

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Kanotix the Live CD

Tuesday, 1. May 2007, 23:06:26

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My second Live CD to mess with - in my quest to find a reasonable substite to and improvement on Windows - is Kanotix. It's a Debian-based Linux distro that is similar to Knoppix but is touted with more hardware support. Thanks to blackbelt_jones for the suggestion. This time I decided to test first on this P3 866Mhz machine with 256Mb RAM I have here since it's handy, and the same machine did so well with DesktopBSD.

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Freeware I recommend

  • Opera USB

    Get Opera on a stick!

  • Media Monkey

    Don't get winamp. Get Media Monkey! Much easier to bulk-edit ID tags, much easier to organise your music. It also rips and burns audio CDs much better than crappy windows media player, which takes forever "preparing" files. Did I mention it's free?

  • Audacity - multitrack audio editor

    Open source audio editor and multitracker.

  • LAME Aint an Mp3 Encoder

    The original MP3 encoding software website.

  • WavPack - hybrid audio compression

    High quality audio compression.

  • 7-zip - archiver

    Zip program that gives better compression than any others. Supports zip, rar, gz, tar, and others, plus its own superior 7z format. On top of that it can open and edit iso files without mounting them!

  • PDF Creator

    Create PDFs out of any document or graphic file using a virutual "PDF Printer". Very easy to use.

  • CDBurnerXP Pro - CD and DVD burning software

    Easy, quick and full-featured CD/DVD burning software. Will also burn any ISO to any disk, and create an ISO file from any compilation you make. AND... it's free.

  • IrfanView

    The smallest, fastest, easiest graphics viewing and editing program I've come across.

  • The Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program

    GNU Image Manipulation Program. Open source image editor available for Linux/BSD, Windows and Mac. Even more features, some that even Photoshop doesn't have such as gif animation.

  • Nvu - web editor

    Free web page editor - does most of what Dreamweaver does plus a bit more besides, and it's free - very handy...

  • PSPad - text/code editor

    Free text editor for coders. Very full-featured with loads of online resources, no matter what you are coding - PHP, HTML, C++, whatever. Or just like writing plain text documents.

  • Open Office suite

    Open Source office suite. It does pretty much everything that MS Office does - except drain your wallet of funds of course.

  • Spybot - Search and Destroy anti-spyware

    A great Spyware and Malware detection and removal program with lots of useful system tools for Windows.

  • Crap Cleaner

    Useful Windows cleanup utility. Free up disk space, check and fix registry errors, and other useful tools.

  • Avira Antivir

    A highly rated free anti-virus program

  • Avast Anti-Virus

    Another highly rated free anti-virus program

  • AVG Anti-virus/anti-malware

    Free Antivirus, anti spyware and anti rootkit software

  • Comodo Firewall Pro

    The best Firewall software available - and it's free. Comodo also make free antivirus and anti-spyware software.

  • Trillian - multi-protocol chat program

    Connects you to MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger so you can chat to your friends cross-platform all in one chat client.

  • Pidgin - multi-protocol chat program

    Like Trillian, but connects to you lots more instant messenger services for free: Jabber/XMPP/GoogleTalk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Zephyr and more. It's also available for Linux, BSD and other platforms whereas Trillian is Windows only.

  • Portable Apps

    A suite of programs you can put on any USB drive and run them on any Windows computer you plug the USB drive into. Huge range of useful apps.