Libra Systems LibraNet 2.7 Review

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John.'s Review of Libra Systems LibraNet 2.7

24th Oct 2002

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
Good Points

Based on Debian Linux "Woody" kernel.
Extremely well supported by developers and users.
Installs quickly and easily, even for first-time users.
Powerful and flexible enough for Linux uber-geeks.


Bad Points

Lacks a 'supermount' feature like that in Mandrake Linux 9.
Wheel mice still don't work - the generic mouse setting must be used.


General Comments

Libranet Linux 2.7 is based on the famed Debian Linux distribution and is perfectly suitable for the novice user with no Linux experience. If your system has a Pentium class processor or better, you can have Libranet 2.7 up and running in much less than an hour.
The entire distribution comes on 2 CDROMs in the mail or you can download the ISOs and burn your own CDs.
The best features of Libranet are the MASSIVE number of programs included on the CDs and the fabulous Xadministration system administration program. The programs first.
Libranet comes with KDE 3 and Gnome 2, OpenOffice, SIAG (Scheme In A Grid), Abiword, Evolution email, Mozilla and Opera browers, games and quite literally several hundred more programs. Only SuSE Linux came with more software and it took 3 CDs to do it. I don't know how Tal and the Libranet people packed so much stuff in but I guarantee you that you will NEVER find yourself saying 'I wish there was a program for such-and-such'.
But if you have programs you like better out there on the Web, Xadministration will not only get it but download it, compile it, AND drop it onto your hard drive.
The Xadmin menu is the best part of Libranet. Everything is presented like tabbed file folders. Click on a tab and you're ready to go. No more hunting down admin menu programs (hear that, SuSE?). For examply, if you want to download a new program (package) you will find a tab for both the Libranet CDs and the Internet. Simple.
The real beauty of this distribution is that it makes NO assumptions about how much or little you know about Linux.

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