Linux Journal has a nice little video of nine eight Linux distros, giving a bit of variety to the always-focusing-on-Ubuntu habit. Linux Journal Associate Editor Shaun Powers runs through them for us on his laptop…! He struggles a bit to get Gentoo going, but hey, can’t have everything perfect now can we?

Personally I dual-boot Kubuntu/Win XP SP2 on a Pentium 4, 3.2GHz machine with 2GB RAM, but have tried and installed many of the flavours reviewed here for people who wanted to try Linux out and also who wanted to breath fresh new life in old hardware they didn’t want to throw away when they got new computers.

So far the star performers have been PCLinuxOS and Mint Linux, I think it has something to do with the out-of-the-box multimedia support although PCLinuxOS has stopped that with their latest versions. Another star performer that was well received was Damn Small Linux. Anyways here’s the video, enjoy

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