Tuxmachines: Testdriving Sidux 2007

“I’ve been busy testing away at distros lately. I know I haven’t
produced too many reviews lately, but that’s because since
receiving my laptop this passed Christmas, distros now have a
higher hurdle to clear. I’ve been testing, but not many are up to
the challenge of a commercially available off-the-rack laptop. One
‘almost there’ was VectorLinux which I reviewed for this week’s
DistroWatch Weekly. Another is the subject of this article: sidux
2007-01.

“I say Vector was almost there because I still had one important
issue with it. Although I was able to work through most of the
problems with it on my laptop, I couldn’t get the suspend to ram or
suspend to disk to work. Honestly, I quit working on it as soon as
the article on it was published, but otherwise I liked it quite a
bit. Never underestimate the value of a nice looking system. Even
geeks like eye candy too…”

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