Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. 1 The Poll by RevDon on 2. Dante`S Inferno Pc Utorrent. GMT from United StatesI prefer that a distro have fully functioning and stable editions. For some larger groups more than one would be fine as long as the quality remains high for them. But smaller groups with limited man power quite often struggle enough with a single edition so attempting multiple editions would lower the quality of all of them. Sparky Linux and more by mikef. GMT from United StatesA very timely review of Sparky as I had attempted to install both stable and rolling in Vbox about a month ago. Unfortunately that wasnt very successful as the Vbox guest utilities installer could not find sources, even though linux headers was installed. Otherwise I like the default Xfce menu layout and that it feels lighter than Linux Mint and Solyd. X my main desktop os. As a panel focused user, Im still not happy with LXQt or MATE yet they havent come up to the elegance of Xfce functionality yet. Monitoring and waiting. Una distribucin live o Live CD o Live DVD, ms genricamente Live Distro, siendo en ocasiones como CD vivo o CD autnomo, es un sistema operativo almacenado en. Poll Their Own Look by 4orbs on 20171106 010533 GMT from United States No strong preference for me, but I do appreciate a distro that attempts some. Expect is an automation and testing tool used to automate a process that receives interactive commands. If you can connect to any machine using ssh, telnet, ftp, etc. In this article you will learn how to recover data from ext3 and ext4 filesystems. The tool used is extundelete utility. How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 IsoThe Poll by JImmyDean on 2. GMT from United Statesi like distros to offer at least one or two light weight window mangers as an alternative to their big desktop whether it is gnome or kde, or mate or trinity, it could be openbox, lxde, icewm, or fluxbox, anything that is lightweight and stable, and handles the windowing of apps good. Sparky by Sparkyuser on 2. GMT from AustraliaBeen using sparky rolling for over a year. Im a fairly inexperienced Linux user but I like to tweak the look and feel etc. Sparky XFCE has been rock solid for me with a good selection of apps. Its also blazing fast. I recommend it to Linux users looking to move from completely user friendly into I like getting my hands a bit dirty. I also game and have used Unreal EditorUnity and Steam which worked well. Poll by meanpt on 2. GMT from PortugalDepends on the purpose of the distro creator and communities. If the main purpose is to provide a lean and functioning OS, as Bodhi, LXLE and Tory seek, or something very specific, like the rare but working implementation of Enlightenment as provided by Bodhi, it wouldnt make any sense to provide more than an optimized desktop for that specific purpose. In this case, the choice of a desktop serves a purpose. The implementation of KDE by the Kubuntu community also serves a purpose and have resulted in a damned good KDE. The developers of Cinamon and Mate also had and have a strict purpose of not using Unity nor the last iteration of gnome, which is shared by the distro communities implementing them. So, provided the distro communities have the knowledge and the resources to fill their purposes, they should optimize and implement their purposeful sought desktop environments. Poll Response by david esktorp on 2. GMT from United StatesGenerally I prefer a distribution to focus on 1 default interface. However, that depends on the number of users and developers, their needs wants, etc. For example, a one man team should probably not be focused on multiple interfaces unless thats a primary feature of their project. There is also the matter of the core distributions vs those farther downstream. I would say the closer you are to the core distribution, the more excuse there is for preparing all those extra DE, WM, etc. Im surprised this poll was instigated by Sparky and not Ubuntu, which is notorious for dominating the entire Distrowatch news page every time they release a new version. How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 Eol' title='How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 Eol' />Ubuntu gets away with it though, because Canonical has the resources to present their sauced up DE packages as separate distributions, simply by adding a letter and buying a few extra domain names. Maybe if Sparky called their KDE edition Spar. KDEy and bought sparkdey. Installation_Guide-en-US/images/begininstall/hd.png' alt='How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 Download' title='How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 Download' />The term distribution has failed us, because it leads to weird apples and oranges discussions and also because many most desktop linux distributions are barely more than theme packs. The copycat wannabe marketing has thankfully died down a little bit. Seems like everyone got a little tired of trying to redo the pretentious linux for everyone linux for people linux for human beings slogan. I know there is lots of talk about choice and thats fine, but with each passing year, Linux seems to be about endlessly reinventing the wheel and providing bloated solutions for problems that do not exist. I dont know how you can judge whether Sparky or any other distribution is stretched too thin without having a somewhat accurate count of the userbase and then statistics of their usage. Then and only then could you know what is excessive and what is appropriate. Slax by david esktorp on 2. How To Install Testdisk On Centos 5 End Of LifeGMT from United StatesWhy is he even bothering with this There are already too many poseurs lead developers running around with this so long as somebody else packages it for me attitude. Dude, if youre reading this, go contribute to one of the gajillion of existing distributions instead of clogging up the works with your withered husk of a product. Geez, at least call it something else. Why are you calling it Slax if its based on DebianIssuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Here are some notes on getting CPU frequency scaling working on Linux. CPU frequency scaling does what it sounds like. It will raise and lower the frequency of your. Let sleeping dogs lie, slaxguy. Sparky Linux explained by dhinds on 2. GMT from MexicoIve used Sparky since v. Debian derivative. Offering three versions is a recent development. Sparky was based on Debian Testing. The main version was LXDE but of course LXDE forked, and worked on developing LXQt jointly with Razor Qt. Both LXDE and LXQt use Openbox as their window manager. The other flavors were added on as additional programmers joined the team. Sparky Ultra Openbox no longer offered was a far better distro than Crunch. Bang, IMO. Sparkys forums are excellent and I have received as many as responses in a single day from Sparkys main developer in spite of his being in Warsaw. Sparkys Multi Media edition is based on Openbox alone with neither LX. The Game. Over edition may be also, Im not sure. Like Xfce, the LX desktop environments are modular and all are compatible with each components of each other. I use the Xfce. 4 panel with all four, for instance. Like all derivatives of Debian Testing it can break, but that is rare and is quickly repaired. I an glad to see Sparky attracting more attention but feel that the review was a bit unfair. Poll by argent on 2. GMT from United StatesOdd question to ask and more difficult to give a good answer. Most distributions that are a single distribution and maintained by many are seldom polished and also among the highest ranking on DW. Guess the real question should be what is considered a polished distribution, in the 1. Linux can say that only a few are in that terms of being polished. There are many very good to excellent distros that are basically maintained by one developer. However, many others are in direct collaboration with each others derivatives, etc. Believe there is some confusion that one person by their lonesome is responsible for a multitude of distributions. Perhaps in rare cases, someone might have many distributions they maintain. There are a few that I do know of. The honest answer is all developers collaborate their builds. All of them ask questions too The build in which distros are compiled maybe a mystery to some, and there are various build configurations. Switching from an Openbox Wm to a Lxde DE and then to E1. To ask a question without really knowing what is involved or capable explaining could leave someone very confused. The real question these days to me is does it work which leaves out most of those so called polished distros. Hackers Manual 2. Power up your linux skills by Alberto Labarga. Hackers Manual 2. Power up your linux skills   Published on Jul 2.