You will find in this review a large repertoire of what a modern distribution can offer from a software point of view but also, more and more, from a service perspective. The distributions offered in The Best of Linux edition are as follows:
• Fedora 18
• Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon
• Mageia 2
• openSUSE 12.2
• Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu is pushing its “One” services and with the recent announce of a Ubuntu dedicated phone distribution, this is for a start a promising competitor to Android. Mint listens the best to its community by offering a large choice of graphical interfaces. Mageia is trying to reconquer the old Mandrake/Mandriva users heart by providing a polished ans stable community-driver distribution. OpenSUSE is still the reference, community-based enterprise-level distribution.
This issue comes with the multiboot 32-bit DVD containing all 5 distributions mentioned above in their Live version.
Contents
- What is the best distribution for your needs?
- Five distributions to the bench
- Installing Fedora 18
- Virtualizing on Fedora
- Installing Linux Mint 14
- Backup your system before updating it in Linux Mint
- Media Center Mint
- Installing Mageia 2
- Mageia at its best – a rapid overview of the Control Center
- Sharing Files with Mageia
- Installing openSUSE 12.2
- Coding in openSUSE
- Installing Ubuntu 12.10
- Alternate Methods for booting Ubuntu
Magazine properties: title line: Linux Identity Pack; issue: 8; pages: 68; DVD attached: 1; price (US): $14.99
