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By: The worst best torrent client list « Motho ke motho ka botho

The worst best torrent client list « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:22:34 +0000

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By: There will be no apps “best of” « Motho ke motho ka botho

There will be no apps “best of” « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:57:51 +0000

[...] quick and dirty distro recap I put together last week was a special punishment that I incurred when I lambasted someone else’s list, for being [...]

By: Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho

Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:40:29 +0000

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By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:12:44 +0000

Fair enough, I’ll take your word for it. I still think it was a bit bland to use every big-name distro as a blanket for such generic categories. But if there is a print article that fills in the rest of the gaps … I’ll concede.

By: Duncan Snowden

Duncan Snowden — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:34:58 +0000

Sorry for replying to my own comment, but I’ve just bought this month’s LXF and it has an eight-page “alternative distro” roundup, which presumably Morrison had a hand in: Slitaz, Zenwalk… even your beloved Crux is in there. I think this reinforces my impression that he simply didn’t want to get too obscure on a non-Linux-specific site.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:13:41 +0000

What baffles me is the following:

- Best distro for the office: SuSE
because it has ties to Microsoft, so if your work relies on MS Office, SuSE is the best? What?

AFAIK you still need to run Wine for MS Office, which will run exactly the same in Ubuntu, Fedora, heck Arch Linux.

By: Duncan Snowden

Duncan Snowden — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:18:09 +0000

It’s by Graham Morrison, Reviews Editor of Linux Format. I think he’s tried more than 11 distros this year. In fact, I know he tried some pretty obscure distros and configurations – no X for two weeks, for example – in “challenges” for their TuxRadar podcast.

But it’s for a general tech site; I suppose he felt he had to dumb it down a bit, which I agree is a pity.

By: arin

arin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:01:15 +0000

Why didn’t they just declare that Debian is the best distro in the world? Six out of ten entries based on it, or crucial parts of it, can’t be wrong, or at least won’t be too far from the truth.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:00:12 +0000

All right, I’ll add it to the neverending list of things to do.

By: llewton

llewton — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:17:02 +0000

For once in my life I won’t even click on a link. Techradar is not a very serious authority

But, “nods to Debian”. Surely all them Ubuntus are a nod to Debian and then some.