To upgrade or not to upgrade?

You may know that my current laptop Sony VAIO VGN-NR21Z has 4 operating systems installed. Three of them are Linux : Debian , Linux Mint an...Read more »

Order your copies of OpenSuSE 13.1 and Linux Mint 16 Petra

The readers of my blog already know that I often put adverts about coming releases of operating systems, letting you pre-order a disk with a...Read more »

My favourite is KDE. Why? I'm not sure

I'm not sure I have a favourite distribution. The first disto I used (1999) was Debian. So I'm used to thinking first in terms of ...Read more »

Linux Mint 15 - An alternative review

Introduction Linux Mint 15 has been out for a while and so there are already a number of good reviews written about it. Linux Mint is a very...Read more »

The main reason I love Linux: it works. Plain and simple.

I got introduced to Linux in 2006. My first distributions were Kubuntu , then PC Linux OS . Until eventually I arrived to Mint Daryna . By ...Read more »

Experiences of a software consultant with various Linux distributions

I like reading comments under the posts of my Linux blog . Some of these comments are short. Some of them are extended to several paragraphs...Read more »

What would be my own ideal Linux distribution?

There was a question addressed to me recently, after publishing the " Divergence in the distros " article. The person asked me You...Read more »

Divergence in the distros: how the Linux community is splitting into a two-tier system

Multiple revenue streams aren't a bad thing. Look at any major service provider: Heroku, Google, Amazon , Apple. All of them offer diffe...Read more »

From US Soldier to IT Manager... with Linux Mint

During my earlier years, I was in the US military as an enlisted soldier. Money was extremely tight for my wife and I, but I had a passion f...Read more »

Linux Mint is better for those who come from the world of Windows

Back in 2010 I was looking for jobs and I´ve always had a hobby interest in computer and found out that some work ads were asking for basic ...Read more »

Linux Mint Contest Results

Time flies by very quickly. It seems that only yesterday I announced a Linux Mint contest on my blog . Now it is time to tell you who the w...Read more »

Linux Mint Contest

This contest is now over. Linux notes from DarkDuck , together with other organizers, recently ran a contest for the lovers of Zorin OS. Th...Read more »

Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” RC(Release Candidate) Released!

courtesy-http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2205 Based on Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 14 RC code-name Nadia Released. Linux Mint 14 RC is powered by ...Read more »

5 highly rated Linux OS distributions

First released in 1991 by Linus Torvalds , Linux is an open-source operating system derived from the UNIX OS. The philosophy of such open-so...Read more »

Linux Mint 13 with a hint of cinnamon

Introduction Last week I posted an article about Linux Mint 13 using the Mate desktop . The machine I used as the host for the Mint 13 Mate ...Read more »