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The 14 best Linux distros

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Given the number of Linux distros out there, how did we pick just 14? Some were obvious; the likes of Slackware and Debian have been around since Linus was in short trousers. SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu are similarly too significant to ignore. What about the others?
To survive, a distro must have something to [...]

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Five operating systems that time forgot

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While you’re cursing the slow boot times of your modern PC or wondering why you can’t have 50 applications open at once without the system taking a hit, cast your mind back to the operating systems of old.
Here are five operating systems we fondly remember. Actually, that’s a lie. One of them had us pointing [...]

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Panasonic HDC-DX1

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The HDC-DX1 represents Panasonic’s first tentative step into the world of disc-based High Definition Video (HDV) camcorders, though its track record with cassette and hard-drive HDV camcorders suggest that this shouldn’t be anything less than an impressive debut.
Recording onto DVDs – 8cm DVD-R discs to be precise – the DX1 is able to store [...]

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