Review: GoblinX 2.6 | Linux Today

Review: GoblinX 2.6

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MN
Marius Nestor
Mar 4, 2008

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader
for this link. ]

“Version 2.6 of GoblinX, the Slackware-based Live CD Linux
distribution, was released 10 days ago, and it was a good
opportunity for me to take it for an in-depth test drive. What
impressed me the most, is the fact that the developer (yes a single
man is behind this distribution), Flavio de Oliveira a.k.a Grobsch,
has succeeded to insert no more than five (yes, that’s 5) desktop
environments, or window managers if you prefer so, in this tiny
Linux distribution.

“So, I’ve downloaded the ISO image and burn it on a blank CD. I
should mention that the image has approximatively 300 MB in size,
which is a wonderful thing for those of you who don’t own a
high-speed Internet connection…”

Complete
Story

MN

Marius Nestor

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