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[News] How to Chooses GNU/Linux Distribution, 486s Still Supported!

  • Subject: [News] How to Chooses GNU/Linux Distribution, 486s Still Supported!
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:20:12 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/4.3.1
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Linux Training Week: Which Distribution To Choose?

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| Another favourite of mine is Fedora Linux, 
| used by none other than Linus Torvalds 
| himselfâ Itâs second only to Ubuntu, which 
| hopefully youâll be more familiar with 
| after our week of features on it! 
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http://www.zath.co.uk/linux-traning-week-which-distribution-to-choose/

DeLi Linux: A Linux distro for old computers, from 486 to Pentium III

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| DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux. 
| It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, 
| from 486 to Pentium III or so. It's focused on 
| desktop usage. It includes email clients, 
| graphical web browser, an office programs with 
| word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A 
| full install, including XOrg and development 
| tools, needs not more than 750 MB of harddisk 
| space. 
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http://clicknscroll.blogspot.com/2010/02/deli-linux-linux-distro-for-old.html

Takeover of Kongoni Linuxâ

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| When this is gonna happen, the next release, 
| at the moment is unknown, as this is my first 
| time of taking over the development of a Linux 
| distribution and plus I need to understand the 
| overall idea of Kongoni.
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http://www.kongoni.co.za/index.php/2010/02/10/takeover-of-kongoni-linux/


Recent:

FSF updates list of free GNU/Linux distributions, adding Kongoni and announcing the Trisquel 3.0 release

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| Kongoni, named after the Shona word for "gnu," is based in Africa. For optimal
| performance with minimal bandwidth requirements, it uses a packaging system called
| "ports" that downloads programs as source and builds them automatically.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/free-distributions-updates-kongoni-trisquel


Kongoni Linux

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| It's pretty, but I'm not sure how much of that is the work of the maintainers
| and how much of it is owed to KDE 4. Their differentiating features, PIG and
| KISS, are less than impressive to a casual user.
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http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/kongoni.htm


Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.2 alpha released

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| South Africaâs newest GNU/Linux distribution, Kongoni, yesterday released its
| first alpha release for the upcoming 1.12.2 release. Kongoni - the Shona word
| for Gnu - is a desktop-focused distribution with significant inspiration from
| BSD-Unix systems. Codenamed Sophocles, Kongoni 1.12.2 is based on Slackware
| 12.2 with the latest upstream patches and also features KDE 4.2.2 as well as
| the latest stable releases of most common desktop applications such as
| OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4765
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