the iso size can be shrunken more with a little effort. the included apps are:
Audacious Audio Player
SMPlayer Media Player
Wicd Network Manager
Seamonkey Browser
Geany Text Editor
Galculator
Gparted Partition Editor
LXTask Task Manager
Pidgin Chat Client
Thunar File Manager
XFCE Terminal
Viewnior Image Viewer
Adobe Flash
Retrovol Mixer
XFCE Screenshooter
Obshutdown
Filemnt
Udisks2 Volume Monitor
Grub4dos
Set date and time
PacmanExpress GUI package manager
all of these apps are inside the 04-apps.xzm, with the goal being a default and ready to use OS. Of course these apps might not be someone's preferred favorites....so simply delete 04-apps.xzm, and make another one with 'your' favorites, or install any app you want with pacman...saving your changes inside a .dat save file. I like to be able to completely remove apps or unwanted stuff from my linux where it's "COMPLETELY" gone. aufs linuxes as we know just hides/white outs the files, which works very well, but i prefer it to be completely gone and not just whited out. Deleting the 04-apps.xzm will leave you with simply xfce desktop and xfce panel, and nothing else. giving you the freedom to ctl-alt-backspace to exit X.....and install any text editor, terminal, etc. from a tty prompt. I've also pulled the /usr/include files out of the iso, which would be in the dev.xzm file. also removed the /usr/share/locale files which would be in a locale.xzm....done to keep the iso size to a minimal.
It's done this way to be able to simply make an 03-lxde.xzm or 03-razor.xzm...and use it in place of the 03-xfce.xzm. still being able to make use of the 04-apps.xzm, if you choose to continue using that choice of apps.
There's a couple other changes i have in here as well. there's a file /etc/daemons....where you would list the name of your start up daemons such as wicd, messagebus, alsa, samba, etc. the daemon scripts are sometimes in the /etc/rc.d folder on some linuxes....but i have the /etc/daemons file to read from the folder /etc/init.d. Also theres a file /etc/modules....which is there for if any modules are needed to be loaded at start. b43 or vboxdrv for example....just type b43 and vboxdrv, one under the other, in the /etc/modules file, and they will be auto loaded every time the system boots. some of these changes and mods are done by adjustments i've made to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.4, so you may want to take a look at that file to get an idea of what I have going on in there.
XFCE (default) on 64-bit

Cinnamon Desktop on 64-bit

GNOME 3 on 64-bit

2.1 v2
Porteus/Arch v2
porteusarch21v2-32.iso 147 MB
md5sum = 11265d596d71e42ccf6554bb18bb5c30
Extra Apps
005-extraapps.xzm 95 MB
md5sum = ed55afaa38f1044c8c4423e89a764474
Openbox/Tint2
003-openbox.xzm 11 MB
md5sum = 3ce6b68806bf6094edd9d1f4db4465a5
3.0
Porteus/Arch 32-bit
Sensei-v3.0-i486.iso 150 MB
mirror
md5sum = 7bb9f2b7f6e0d7a7680e5ef8f1eabca5
Extra Apps
005-extraapps.xzm 106 MB
md5sum = 03e7e9a54dc9c414e28a27ac85eb771c
Locales if using extraapps (also install 'pacman -S --force locales-xfce30')
008-locales+extra.xzm 20 MB
md5sum = 9e1a92c7d8cc5bcaf9a5d861e9828119
Locales default/if not using extraapps (also install 'pacman -S locales-xfce30')
008-locales.xzm 11 MB
md5sum = df3ea7005651bb5223a67b467c62f7c3
Porteus/Arch 64-bit
Sensei-v3.0-x86_64.iso177 MB
md5sum = 22ac45cbfc5b94c0d65c624cf3cb74bd
Extra Apps
005-extraapps64.xzm 125 MB
md5sum = 3b4d21ad098eca58cd946e5eaab8bcc9
Cinnamon Desktop
003-cinnamon64.xzm 125 MB
md5sum = 9e49f2a8508050703fb5832b7c5f709c
GNOME 3
003-gnome64.xzm 132 MB
md5sum = c8cdf56fbfd05a6e186e23b6eef75900
Base-Devel if using extraapps (also install 'pacman -S --force devx64-xfce30 or devx64-cinnamon30 or devx64-gnome30')
006-devx+extra64.xzm 107 MB
md5sum = 87fba59265870cda26c7bf351c7e6d4b
Base-Devel default/if not using extraapps (also install 'pacman -S devx64-xfce30')
006-devx64.xzm 103 MB
md5sum = 22a1d2c9a74110e66f42f4e74dd90073
Kernel Source
007-kernelsrc64.xzm 93 MB
md5sum = d15eb4dacfc198b4362eb32a87bca864