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I’ve never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I’ve always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system.
The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old and I don’t have the time (*sic*) to play with it to make it work well. Lenny should be next to be released but I don’t feel the very famous stability AND lightness of Debian distributions on this release, like I was accustomed in the past years. Is this because I own a Macbook? Maybe, but a Macbook Santa Rosa is nothing more than an Intel-powered notebook with some strange input devices and a strange non-bios system

Regarding Ubuntu, I believe that this distribution has become naff and really slow. See this Slashdot discussion on this topic.

Yesterday I stumbled to Scientechie review of Fedora 10, which convinced me to try it out.
The software shipped with Fedora 10 is aligned with the one provided with the other distributions: Gnome 2.24.0, kernel 2.6.27.5, NetworkManager 0.7.0 (svn) and so on. Read the release notes for more information.

Fedora 10 really surprises me, as it is the first Gnu/Linux distribution in many, many years that makes me feel again the great stability and performance of the Penguin. Therefore I’m writing this review that is also a how-to, as it contains some fixes for Fedora 10 and Macbooks.

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It’s a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros.
I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha 6 yesterday, I fell into problems with it and a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade brought me Ubuntu 8.10 beta, correcting some of them
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BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

I’m very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I’m tired of task3.cc, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

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Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I’m reviewing is the so-called “gOS 3 ‘Gadgets’”, their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I’ve never heard about this bar, it’s very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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Pomodroid
A Java/Android application that interacts with a Trac
system, retrieves developer’s tasks and lets him work following the basic rules of the Pomodoro technique.

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A task manager implementing the Pomodoro Technique

BD-review
A dynamic website to allow people to review releases (albums, demos, EPs, singles) of (young, unsigned) music bands. Written using a small subset of JavaEE technologies, without the use of web-frameworks.

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A dpaste/pastebin clone written using Django

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A tiny C shell for Unix systems

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BD-blog minimalistic Wordress theme, available for free

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Unipoli
A well-written Java implementation of the popular Monopoli game by Hasbro. It is a project I wrote with other 3 University mates following a software development cycle (Scrum). Unipoli was the project for our Programming Project course. Source code included, released under GPL. We also provide Javadoc, user stories, uml diagrams, binaries.

Computer Shop Warehouse IDA
A very simple, not really useful IDA (Individual Database Application) developed for the “Introduction to Database Systems” course. The documentation is really interesting

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E’ cosí gente, quando una distro ti prende, ti prende..mi era successo ben 5 anni fa con SuSE, ma dopo la WebValley 2005, e grazie al vecchio Napo, la distro Ubuntu mi si é insidiata nel cuore, e non vuole piú abbandonarmi..io ho provato ad usare la OpenSuse 10.0 (si, é migliorata, l’ho recensita in questo articolo), ho testato molte altre distro come mio solito, la Slackware 10.2, la Vlos 1.2 (quest’ultima l’ho apprezzata davvero tanto per la sua velocitá, l’ho recensita in quest’altro articolo), FreeBSD 6.0 (bello il nuovo sito), persino Solaris 10…
Ma nessuna di queste si avvicina alla mitica Ubuntu. Non esiste distro piú semplice, flessibile (per utenti noobs e per i geek), e potente come questa.. Nel mio piccolo, continueró a sponsorizzarla nel mio blog, ed appena mi arriva il pacco a casa spedito dalla Canonical LTD., distribuiró una ventina di copie di Ubuntu 5.10 per intel, amd e powerpc nella mia scuola..
Viva Ubuntu!
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