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Post subject: new sidux review
 Posted: Jun 29, 2007 - 11:32 PM
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Post subject: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 12:41 AM
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Actually it seems better than others, he didn't judge the distribution entirely on what was packaged with it.
This is a generic review that I see often.
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Wow, this distribution is great for beginners! It comes with KDE, Firefox, Openoffice, Konversation, Konqueror, Konsole, KMix, Pidgin, Amarok, X.org, Bash, a kernel, and no proprietary drivers.
It also has a KMenu, look at how its organized, WOW!!
WOW!!!1!
It can't play flash videos on live cd, I hate this distribution now.
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Post subject: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 12:57 AM
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| damentz, all along I thought you might be a junior hacker, but now I see that your future path is in Linux distro reviews. That review was short, to the point, and, most important, focused on a feature that is totally irrelevant or illegal to implement, which qualifies your sample review as the same quality as most others. |
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Post subject: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 10:38 PM
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Ouch:
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surprisingly Firefox is not installed by default. sidux instead offers the Konqueror browser as well as sidux Browser, which is an implementation of IceWeasel (built on Mozilla). While I am not a huge fan of Konqueror, I did find IceWeasel very simplistic and very similar to Firefox
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Posted: Feb 13, 2008 - 12:31 AM
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very similar, that's like saying my twin looks like me.
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The desktop is very dark, but this is nice to see after using so many “light” distributions.
Is he reviewing the Live CD or the HD install, Most everybody changes the desktop to suit so why is this included in a review?
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When it comes down to it, configuration and some other aspects of sidux do require previous knowledge with Linux and particularly Debian. For this reason I still believe SimplyMEPIS is a better choice for beginners, but definitely feel advanced users will get more out of using sidux. Once I get tired of using Linux Mint 3.0 I am confident I will switch to sidux.
If I'm not mistaken SimplyMEPIS requires previous knowledge also. And why is it these review people can't get it though thier heads that linux reviews should stand on thier on not rated against windoz. When he get's more confident in debian he'll have a different view. Maybe.
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I've used Debian several years now. sidux is by far the easiest purest debian based distro I've used. Some are easier but are not as pure. Debian Sid is not that easy to install and configure. With sidux I get a chance to run Debian/Sid, or at least feel like I do.  |
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Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 05:25 PM
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Personally , and with no direct relation to the linked review, I was reviewing films and books long before I took up Nix.....and the trend to describe an install and the first days of use on a new distro is like reviewing a movie and just regurgitating the plot.
In the Geek world it seems, a degree of imaginative literacy is often lacking. Use the distro......preferably for a week or two, point out strenghts and weaknesses and how much productivity is enhanced by it, or how features you feel are necessary to a well rounded review stack up............
Speed, packages installed out of box, other 'semi-legals' like codecs are installed or no?, type of package management, where it comes from (forked from) and other relevant points should be addressed to really be considered a review.......
The first install style articles are travelogues, not reviews. but it seems the dominent mode of discussion in the Nix world....a trend I would love to see changed. I am not installing the distro on YOUR box......I don't have the same needs -whether it be gui apps or simplicity, speed or eye candy. Stand back from your own one day experience and evalutate the distro. In a manner that helps the largest number of users make up their minds to try it.
Any review at all could be a way of contributing to the FOSS world, and is appreciated as such. Thanks to all of them who took time to post reviews. But could we at least raise the standard of reviewing? Coders and hackers are not always writers, and writers sure as hell aren' t all coders and hackers.....maybe a division of labor is called for?
Nothing more frutstrating at the end of the day when a reviewer is neither, by committing blatant inaccuracies and simply giving a travelogue of their install.
It reeks a bit too much of "You are a special unique snowflake......and so is everyone else.
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Posted: Mar 27, 2008 - 07:37 AM
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The desktop is very dark, but this is nice to see after using so many “light” distributions.
Is he reviewing the Live CD or the HD install, Most everybody changes the desktop to suit so why is this included in a review?
I don't think I've ever seen an OS review (including windows and mac) that DOESN'T comment (praise or slag off) the default appearance.
I know from reading many different forums that many people have chosen one distro over another because they think it looks more "professional" or "polished" out of the box.
Incidentally, I don't always change default themes (the kicker layout or icons maybe but not always the theme). Depends if I like the default theme or not.
For example, I don't like dark themes so I would always change that but I kept the default theme for a long time the last time I did a fresh sidux install and on my PCLinuxOS install I'm still using the default theme. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Mar 27, 2008 - 12:58 PM
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damentz wrote:
This is a generic review that I see often.
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ROFL -- good one, damentz!
That same reviewer sometimes posts a request for assistance on his favorite Linux user forum. It goes about like this:
"I ran the upgrade to 07.7.7 yesterday, and now my shoes don't fit. What should I do?"
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Mar 29, 2008 - 04:45 PM
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A lot of reviews today frustrate me. I mean, they'll spend pages on what it looks like. Don't they realize that they can easily change that. If they do mention features, it's only a couple of things and a lot of what they pass off as new features are actually just new to them but has been in the distro for some time and they've just noticed it.
I like reviews to mention the pros and the cons and what I can expect and not expect if I were to decide to run it. I don't want fluff. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: new sidux review
Posted: Mar 29, 2008 - 05:24 PM
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Reviews don't mean much to me. I do read them. Look at the install process works, scan by the desktop flavors.
What I do like reading are the interviews, like the recent one at DW on sidux.
The next thing I do , after my curiosity is pique, is go to their web site and see how much support is there. I get a "feel" for how much knowledge and how helpful their site is. I don't care how rude someone is. Usually smart people are. They get tired of the same unresearched questions.
Everyone has different needs. One reviewer can't possibly know what mine are. I appeas they mostly follow the same tired format. It's after I take the time AND download AND install AND use that I can make my own evaluations. |
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