Other small os: pureos 4.0 gnome as an example
Posted: 06 Nov 2011, 23:05
I had always thought that it is a really good thing to look at what the others are doing, so to have an idea of what I am doing. This thread is about other small os. Comparison, and even better, comparative studies of the other light systems, should give us some ideas. But before dwelving into comparisons lets look one by one at those small distributions that you find inspiring. I am in the following text introducing pureos, one of bicephales' favorites.
For one that has voted for a gtk and gnome environment, and one that was told that gnome would be too clumsy or heavy for a light distribution like porteus, I was really surprised to try pureos 4.0 that comes with a gnome desktop environment. This is a live cd, standing as a quite extended distribution. Amongst others, it offers the libreoffice suite. It looks good, and it responds sharply. But maybe the best thing for you is to have a try with a frugal install or on a usb. Here is the download site:
http://download.linux-live-cd.org/iso/PureOS/
Here is my menu.lst entry:
For one that has voted for a gtk and gnome environment, and one that was told that gnome would be too clumsy or heavy for a light distribution like porteus, I was really surprised to try pureos 4.0 that comes with a gnome desktop environment. This is a live cd, standing as a quite extended distribution. Amongst others, it offers the libreoffice suite. It looks good, and it responds sharply. But maybe the best thing for you is to have a try with a frugal install or on a usb. Here is the download site:
http://download.linux-live-cd.org/iso/PureOS/
Here is my menu.lst entry:
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title PureOS 4.0 gnome, with Linux 2.6.39.3-pureos
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=769 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=11264 root=/dev/ram0 rw locale=en_CA.UTF-8 keyb=us kbvar=ca changes=pureos_cfg
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz