Happy Holidays and New Year

It's been another year chock full of releases. Lots of distributions I'ld like to not only try but write about, like LuninuX, Comfusion, Wifislax, Manjaro and others, plus of course BSD which is still outstanding.  Time is now very limited and it isn't possible to do all that, but I'll take a few choice picks here and there. Thanks to all of you for checking back and a good start into 2013!!

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CRUX 2.8 Review - The Inspiration Behind Arch Linux

This one is well overdue, but the time has finally come. In my defence, I installed CRUX 2.7.1 as far back as summer, but a hard drive failure wiped it all, and since then 2.8 was released. Just as well, so we'll be testing the latest version 2.8. CRUX is a DIY distribution that is perhaps less known than others, but it is the inspiration behind the mighty Arch Linux as the distribution Judd Vinet was originally using. I would point to this dated interview if you want to know more about the origins of Arch.
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More Games for the Holiday Season

After checking out the Duke Nukem 3d give away I came across more offers on GOG.com, which is undoubtedly the intention. ArmA2 with Operation Arrowhead add-on, together called Combined Operations, is a necessity for playing the DayZ simulation zombie mod that's taken off big time. I've only watched a couple of game play videos so far but it looks real good. It's half price at $14.99 which is an acceptable starting point in my book.
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Holiday Gift: Duke Nukem 3D (Win+Mac)

Duke Nukem 3d for PC & Mac is free to download until Friday 14.59pm. PC obviously means Windows executable here but check out eduke32, a modified game engine that will let you play it on Linux. You need to sign up for an account but just use a disposable email as you can download the game straight away without confirming the address. Thanks to Edward Koenig for the tip. Oh yes, and you get some cool artwork and ringtones, too.
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New Design for Slax.org, Preparing Final Release

Just in time for the expected final release of Slax 7.0 on Monday after all this time the web site has had a makeover as well to serve as a visual reminder that a new age for Slax has truly arrived. This is the first release using KDE 4, and possibly Blackbox as low resource alternative, and also the first one since a sponsor was secured.
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New Stable ArchBang ISO 2012.12 Released

Continuing my theme of randomly re-posting announcements without really adding any content myself until there's more time again, ArchBang 2012.12 is out with a new dark theme, updated openbox-menu, and the Linux 3.6.8 kernel. As it's based on Arch it is now also using systemd and that may give pause for consideration if you care. It's looking fine though, and there'll continue to be unofficial test iso's between releases due to the fast moving nature of developments in open source software.

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Richard Stallman Calls Ubuntu "Spyware"

Ha, well, it was only a matter of time, and we all know that, just like Linus, Mr Stallman pulls no punches. Take that, Canonical. I'm far from a free software zealot or a Ubuntu basher, although I try and live without proprietary stuff as much as possible (is that a reasonable stance?) and I'm generally not using Ubuntu because I do not particularly like it. There are a lot of alternatives out there. At present I'ld be more likely to run Haiku than Ubuntu but that's besides the point. Do what you like but be aware of why you're doing it and the potential pitfalls.
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