Comments on: My Boxen

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:55:34 +0000

For the most part, just click on the Linux topic to see the reviews.

By: patrickv

patrickv — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:58:16 +0000

nice post man but i wonder how your wife manages with xandros, it kinda sucks. I only used OpenSuse 10.2 but that was ages ago, since then I favored intel Macs.
Any link where we can get your linux reviews ? thanks

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:45:59 +0000

Yes, that would be fine. Thank you for asking.

By: Yassine

Yassine — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Hi,

Since your reviews are very interesting;
We want to know if it’s possible and ok for you if we traduce your new reviews from english to french and post them in our website. Of course there will be a direct link, website name and even author name if you want in the top of the traduced article with a thanks word.

Thank you.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:12:25 +0000

Your Linux reviews seem most useful to me. So, you get my questions.
H/W: ASUS (P2V?) M/B with Video&Sound, 1GB RAM, 20 GB IDE drive, 80 GB SATA drive (both drives have OS loaded), 2.8 GHz Pentium 4. Running Win 2K Pro. HP LaserJet 4, Microtek Scanner w/ SCSI-II PCI interface card; Microtek Trackball Marble+. Cable Internet connection.
Background: Retired geology prof. Systems mgr 1983-1990 on multiuser BSD and Solaris Systems for GIS; good C and FORTRAN skills. Comfortable with command line syntax and operation; new to GUI “Unix” interfaces.
Main desktop uses: Open Office, Photoshop, Web browsing, Email. GoogleEarth
Will add 2nd SATA drive, 350-500 GB, dedicated to a new Linux install; hopefully will not have to upgrade Windows again.

Need multi-boot options, ease of install, wide variety of avail. drivers, Free installation, bug free, avail free antivirus, Friendly user community.Wi-Fi support (Belkin & Buffalo Tech H/W).
So far, considering: Linux Mint, Umbutu, Fedora, SUSE, please recommend best of these or others.