May 10, 2008 Archives

Sat May 10 02:13:57 EDT 2008

PCLinuxOS TinyMe: A better PCLOS

Well, the conversion back to PCLOS went a lot smoother than I thought, thanks to a remaster of PCLOS dubbed "TinyMe". TinyMe is a very lightweight version of PCLOS, using Openbox as a window manager, PCManFM as file manager, and LXDE to round off the desktop experience. With TinyMe, I no longer had to fiddle with the GRUB boot options to make sure bootup actually went beyond GRUB(as it did with PCLOS 2007). So now I have a fairly lightweight environment, but I can also play SL thanks to Synaptic. But again, I'm not giving up on SliTaz. I may decide to buy an Eee PC laptop for my birthday coming up and plop SliTaz on it until they do get Nvidia packages made.