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#1: PC Linux OS 2008 "minime" Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:54 pm
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Texstar has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2008 "MiniMe" edition, a minimalist live CD with KDE: "Here is a little MiniMe 2008. It comes with 2.6.22.15 kernel, ALSA 1.0.15 and a very basic KDE 3.5.8 desktop. This is a minimal live CD that is bootable, plus it can be installed. Add in your own background, window decoration, localizations, preferred applications and supporting libraries to fully trick out your desktop. Other changes: I moved Internet and Clock setup to a Utilities folder on the users desktop. Only one question at boot to select the keyboard. Other utilities include ALSA sound configuration, ATI/NVIDIA installation tool, Make Live CD GUI, Make Live USB key and Redo-MBR with OS-probing utility for adding other GRUB boot entries into the GRUB menu. Root password and user setup moved to first boot after installation to hard drive

More here

Downloading it now. Probably will update the PCLOS 2007 on my temp laptop since my last update totally borked X. I much prefer the minimal distros, that way it doesn't have all the extra fluff like kdenetwork, kdeedu, kdegraphics, kdepim, etc. that include programs that I really have no desire to have, and it's not always very easy to remove them. Some distros even have them completely tied in so that KDE shows them as a dependency, so you CAN'T remove them.

#2: Author: mmmna,

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:46 pm
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Mini, Live CD, and PCLOS. All in one post? HMMM. I gotta try this one.

#3: Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:05 am
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Well, my first attempt failed pretty miserably. won't boot. checking if my download is correct.

#4: Author: jada, Location: Sun City, CA 92585

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:15 am
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tlmiller wrote:

Well, my first attempt failed pretty miserably. won't boot. checking if my download is correct.

same here too, want boot!

#5: Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:24 am
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Methinks they might have some bad iso's on some of the mirrors. I'm trying to download via torrent this time, but it's SLOW!!!

#6: Author: jada, Location: Sun City, CA 92585

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:37 am
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I used the download link from distrowatch
http://spout.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/pclinuxos-minime-2008.iso

#7: Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:44 am
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Yup, that's the one I used too. To minimize the possible effect of hardware, I tried booting it in a Virtualbox. failed.

#8: Author: richard, Location: Kent, United Kingdom

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:42 am
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I will have to have a look at this one as well. MiniMe was the first version of PCLOS that I tried and I found it great. If this has the same hardware detection as PCLOS2007 then it will be another hit.

#9: Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:06 pm
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Well, as of this morning, the torrent had finished. I am now running 2008 minime live without issue.

So it does appear that the mirror has an invalid iso. If anyone is trying to download the torrent, I at least will be seading for the next few days.

#10: Author: mmmna,

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:28 pm
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I thought the PCLOS forum announcement post had a link in it to the MiniMe ISO, but I don't see it any more. I see texstar edited his post; I wonder if he once had a link to his ISO.

tlmiller: can you send me the URL for the place where you got your ISO? TIA. (I can torrent down, but my ISP tells me to not be a server and they are rather touchy about defining their own terms).

#11: Author: jada, Location: Sun City, CA 92585

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:27 pm
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well, I wait for the next update Very Happy

#12: Author: mmmna,

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:20 pm
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Well, the download went OK, MD5 checked ok, the burn was without errors so I booted the MiniMe CDR.

Normal Live boot failed - blank screen lockup for over 2 minutes.

Rebooted, ran memtest, that worked fine.

Rebooted, booted to the commandline option, could not find a functional image.

I rebooted once again and forgot what I selected and then I got a GUI login... I poked around, found my wireless NIC was not detected so I forged through the tools to set it up using NDISWRAPPER and now I'm posting.

I wonder if the boot menu options point to the wrong places....

Otherwise, the eyecandy is 'delish', but the total CD needs more goodies... All I have for Multimedia options is Arts, ArtsBuilder, and a mixer.

Literally, this is all I have for applications in the GUI (KDE):Kwrite, KNewsTicker, KInternet Dialup Tool, KPPP, KFont Viewer, KdePrintFax, some configuration tools and some remastering tools to allow making a bootable USB device. The toolbar adds Synaptic and the Desktop offers tools to setup Internet, ATI/nVidia Driver installation, Set the clock, redo the MBR, and the remastering tools.

Not a very well thought out CD - I wonder how much space is devoted to the eyecandy.

I'd rather see this CD fire up with more apps, but folks could get along from here by installing to a hard disk, and pumping synaptic for the goodies they want.

Last edited by mmmna on Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

#13: SimplyMEPIS, sidux, PCLinuxOS, and Puppy - my winners Author: masinick, Location: Concord, NH

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:40 pm
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If PCLlinuxOS used .deb packages instead of .rpm packages this may be one of my favorite distros. As it is, for me, it has climbed to the top of my .rpm distro list ahead of Mandriva and Fedora. I find it not as fast as Debian systems to update packages, but since it at least uses the apt package manager (apt-get from the command line and synaptic as the GUI-based package manager, it is as easy as can be to upgrade packages. Fedora is easy with yum, but it takes forever if you have a few hundred packages to modify. Same with Yast and SUSE, though OpenSUSE has been improving in this respect. Mandriva is (or was) about the best of the RPM based systems in terms of update speed, but PCLinuxOS, being very similar underneath to Mandriva, but with a superior packaging program (apt) to Mandriva's urpmi, wins that race.

I find PCLinuxOS to be very good at partition management and detection and I also find it to be great at configuring wireless setups, so when I am on the road with my laptop, I take a Live edition of PCLinuxOS along.

I just got the very latest DVD from Warren Woodford for SimplyMEPIS 7.0.0.1, so the next time I do an Internet kiosk, Panera Bread, or whatever, I will take SimplyMEPIS along and give it my assessment. I love SimplyMEPIS on the desktop - best stable desktop system overall.

So I guess my four keepers right now are: SimplyMEPIS, sidux, PCLinuxOS, and Puppy. I have more, but those are the ones that get top ratings and tend to get used most. Close waiting in the wings are Kubuntu, UbuntuCE, Fedora, Mandriva, and OpenSUSE. All are good, but those top four really hit their target market and happen to reach niches that I am interested in, so they are my top four choices right now.

#14: Author: tlmiller, Location: MD, USA

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:52 pm
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mmmna wrote:

Well, the download went OK, MD5 checked ok, the burn was without errors so I booted the MiniMe CDR.

Normal Live boot failed - blank screen lockup for over 2 minutes.

Rebooted, ran memtest, that worked fine.

Rebooted, booted to the commandline option, could not find a functional image.

I rebooted once again and forgot what I selected and then I got a GUI login... I poked around, found my wireless NIC was not detected so I forged through the tools to set it up using NDISWRAPPER and now I'm posting.

I wonder if the boot menu options point to the wrong places....

Otherwise, the eyecandy is 'delish', but the total CD needs more goodies... All I have for Multimedia options is Arts, ArtsBuilder, and a mixer.

Literally, this is all I have for applications in the GUI (KDE):Kwrite, KNewsTicker, KInternet Dialup Tool, KPPP, KFont Viewer, KdePrintFax, some configuration tools and some remastering tools to allow making a bootable USB device. The toolbar adds Synaptic and the Desktop offers tools to setup Internet, ATI/nVidia Driver installation, Set the clock, redo the MBR, and the remastering tools.

Not a very well thought out CD - I wonder how much space is devoted to the eyecandy.

I'd rather see this CD fire up with more apps, but folks could get along from here by installing to a hard disk, and pumping synaptic for the goodies they want.

Realistically speaking, minime was designed for those that want to install the distribution to their hard drive, but want to build it with ONLY what they want, so they give you a VERY minimalistic set of tools. As such, Ithink 2008 minime is a resounding success (once you find a working image). For those that actually want to USE a livecd...yes, I would say minime is a completely useless distro...but then, I'm still biased against just about any live cd except puppy.

#15: Author: richard, Location: Kent, United Kingdom

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:34 pm
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tlmiller wrote:

I'm still biased against just about any live cd except puppy.

I have never used puppy so can't comment.

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