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Top five Linux distros in review

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The Sweet Stuff: Software

Thursday November 18, 2010

Doc finishes up his coverage of

the five best purpose-built Linux distros

. From the light weight and light on system requirements of Puppy Linux to the full featured and feature rich Ubuntu, Doc covered five great Linux distros. With so many options, one is right for you.

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Show Notes

- We started off with Puppy Linux, which is great for installation on older machines.

- Puppy Linux is lean and has very small system requirements.

- Next we looked at Slax which is great for use on netbooks.

- We followed next with Mint which is solid and perfect for average users.

- Mint is faintly reminiscent of Windows.

- We looked at XBMC, which is a full-featured media center.

- You can run it from a USB drive, a CD, or you can install it on a computer.

- Lastly, we looked at Ubuntu. It's got everything you need for work and play.

- You can use WINE to run Windows programs that you just can't do without.

- There are many distributions of Linux and you can try most of them by creating a Live CD.

- You can also try out Linux distributions in virtual machines.

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