TIC10 09/03/11 - 11:59 Tropical Ice Cube Newsletter
Tropical Ice Cube Newsletter #10: Taming the Penguin! From: "Jean-Philippe 'Tropical Ice Cube' Monteiro" <jph//BY//zenerves.net> To: pplug//BY//googlegroups.com, barcampphnompenh//BY//googlegroups.com, jugcam//BY//googlegroups.com Date: 09/03/11 - 11:59
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Howdy, Nixettes and Nixers!
Don't mind the Tropical Ice Cube not being cackling and cracking these days, our little parcel of Free Software in Phnom Penh is far from melting down, even with the return of the heat!
And the heat is on, I can tell: the meat of the news this week are around The Others, the ones that are Not So Famous as the Big Fat Ubuntu or the Mighty SuSE: Let's speak about... SimplyMEPIS and LinuxMint:
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MEPIS 8.0
You know what? Being in the top 10 list of Linux Distros doesn't mean your are above critics, and LinuxMint took it's boatload of them in this week Distrowatch review:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090302#feature
It look so... OK, not 'bad', but with those newcomers unfriendliness mistakes that I didn't even bothered downloading the current .iso... [Hey, never mind, you can still request it and I, or one of my sponsors, would download it for you]
A pity for us phnompeneers, since as a KDE-based distro, it means you could (partly) have it in Khmer...
So, unless you are a half-seasoned Linux/KDE enthusiast (Mind you, it is still on 3.5.10) there seems to be limited interest to this distro, at least for this very release. Let's hope some constructive comments found on the article will make their way as bugfixes in the upcoming releases, and I will monitor that for you!
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MINT 6
Meet 'Felicia', the latest of the official Mint releases!
http://linuxmint.com/rel_felicia_whatsnew.php
An astonishing feast of new, innovative features. If you think you like Ubuntu because it is user-friendly, then you ought to try Mint: As they quote it, it's Ubuntu, but user friendly. And it is built on U. anyway :) Now, if you are _not_ a newcomer, and are so cool with your geekiness allowing you to do so extra-complicated things in a black terminal in less that thirty seconds, why not doing it in one single click with Mint? I believe Mint to be _that_ cool, and from my own live test and virtualmachine install, I can tell it looks freakin' gorgeous too.
Interview with the lead Mint Dev:
http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=625
&& The LinuxPlanet review:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6625/1/
Download News:
Very Ubuntu-oriented Linux 'starter' guide now available:
Released for free by the good folks at TuxRadar.com:
"linux_starter_pack.pdf"
TuxRadar is the News Arm of LinuxFormat Magazine.
[Best to pop in my office with a flash drive to get it, but otherwise the 1USD-for-delivery applies
too]
it's only 11megs, so you could get it yourself probably:
http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack
Short news:
Fedora11 to get a mindbogging set of new features too:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
2 free Thin Clients for the price of one:
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/
http://www.osnews.com/story/21069/OpenSUSE_s_Kiwi-LTSP_Easy_Thin_Client_Server
Indeed, Don is right, I don't like Google that much:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/google_watchdog_kerfuffle/
&& Last but not least: playing a video is enough to kill your Windows box!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/09/obama_scandal_malware_ruse/
How any 'cool' social hack will always work...
!!Be Free, Be Safe - Run Linux!!
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Cheers! I wish our Prospective Next Barcampers a cool meeting on Saturday 7th March, 3pm @ T&C World, Street 51 - Anyone welcome! [But I am on duty in Kp Som alas, while I do intend to participate in BCPP II, I do!]
The Tropical Ice Cube - To boldly go where no penguin has gone before!
!! Don't Forget !!
The Tropical Ice Cube always keep the 10 most important Linux Distributions available in their most recent release figure - JUST ASK!
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As Ever, lots of OpenSource Software for M$ too!
"Send a Text Message, Receive Linux for Free"
Getting your computer running Open Source, free software has never been so easy in Phnom Penh: Just
send us a Text Message from your Mobile Phone, and get the Linux Distribution of your choice, for
free!
Text/call on 012 561 005 with either:
* Your request for Linux distro, with pick-up yourself at my office: I will reply with street
address and delay/time to pick up the disc;
or
* Your distro request with your street address and possible hours for delivery; cost is 1usd per
disc/dvd, Business Hours best.
This newsletter brought to you by
Jean-Philippe Monteiro
The Tropical Ice Cube
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