The latest release of Makulu Linux has two major things going for it: first, it is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, rather than Debian; and second, it uses the Xfce desktop. Makulu seems to be doing a tour ...

To each his own, but I love eye candy. When I heard that you could get the 3D Xgl and Compiz environment running on Ubuntu/Kubuntu dapper (my default distribution), I immediately searched the web for ...

Now that you've picked Linux Mint as your preferred distro, which desktop environment will you pick as your preferred edition?

If you favor the OS X environment, Pearl OS might be a Linux distro to feed your fancy.Pearl OS is a revival of the discontinued Pear OS distro. Pearl picks up where Pear left off in early 2014. Pearl ...

I've been doing some work lately evaluating various Linux desktop environments on low-end hardware. I've put a lot of time into this and I've gotten some interesting results, so I thought I'd share ...

Earlier this week, an intrepid Internet Tablet Talk forum member with the handle "Penguinbait" managed to get KDE running on the Nokia N800 web tablet. Yesterday, Penguinbait followed up with ...

The MakuluLinux 5 release brings a new user experience to the traditional Xfce desktop.MakuluLinux was already a solidly performing distro, but the latest version, released last month, takes Makulu to ...

As Intel's investment into the Moblin OS gets increasing attention, and more non-technical users are introduced to Linux-based platforms in the shape of low-cost netbooks, 2009 will see open-source ...

In today's open source roundup: MakeUseOf picks the best software for Linux. Plus: ZDNet reviews MakuluLinux Xfce 7.0, and DistroWatch reviews Manjaro 0.8.11 Linux has zillions of different ...