Cobind Desktop: Review and Interview, Mar 30, 2004

I came upon Cobind Desktop via DistroWatch.com and was curious enough to download and install it. This is Cobind Desktop’s first distribution release. A little information about Cobind Desktop is provided on Cobind.com… “Cobind Desktop merges the reliability of Fedora Core Linux, the speed of a lightweight desktop environment, and the usability of a best-of-breed application suite into the basic, high-performance Linux platform designed with the average user in mind. Using XFce and Nautilus, it offers a Linux distribution that crosses into the mass technology market by giving typical users a fast and familiar desktop experience.” Cobind Desktop does look a lot similar to Fedora, but as we will discover soon, it does differ in many areas. This review will cover the “good” and “bad” side of Cobind Desktop. My good we mean the positive features that Cobind Desktop carries; by “bad” we refer to some negative features, or features that Cobind is lacking.