PCLinuxOS-Light (RAW Edition) proof of concept now available for test

[Hootiegibbon]

Just burned a fresh download of the xz iso - burned ok , correct login etc.

Try reburning (assuming teh md5sum is ok?)

Jase

[scoundrel]

will try again later today..  want to get pclos on this old advent junker..

[Hootiegibbon]

will try again later today..  want to get pclos on this old advent junker..

Whats the specs dude, and which iso did you d/load?

[scoundrel]

think I did the first one ??   as for the lappy its some sort of an advent ?? pentium M ? 256 ram small hard drive.. sis graphics ??  heating problem with any light pclos DE's .. using pup at the moment.. junk ..

[Hootiegibbon]

think I did the first one ??   as for the lappy its some sort of an advent ?? pentium M ? 256 ram small hard drive.. sis graphics ??  heating problem with any light pclos DE's .. using pup at the moment.. junk ..

Possibly the SiS graphics, choose teh second boot option , then if you get localhost login do so and use XFdrake to use either fbdev or vesa

Jase

[scoundrel]

think I did the first one ??   as for the lappy its some sort of an advent ?? pentium M ? 256 ram small hard drive.. sis graphics ??  heating problem with any light pclos DE's .. using pup at the moment.. junk ..

Possibly the SiS graphics, choose teh second boot option , then if you get localhost login do so and use XFdrake to use either fbdev or vesa

Jase

did that Jase.. as mentioned earlier .. will now download the second choice and try that one..

[scoundrel]

nope.. not working.. did get a bit further this time though .. but still no go .. must be the sis thing.. still it boots to lxde mini ??

[scoundrel]

k .. finally got it whipped .. had to install it with unet boot thing and got it up and running on a usb stick ..then installed it..

? .. is there supposed to be a panel on the user side as with the root side ?

 ? .. which desktop is the lightest I can install ??

[Neal ManBear]

  ? .. which desktop is the lightest I can install ??

     
Try IceWM.   

[scoundrel]

  ? .. which desktop is the lightest I can install ??

     
Try IceWM.   

trying for Razor at the moment.. not having any luck with it .. also not happy with the temp and fan usage .. ?

[scoundrel]

got Razor up and running.. 

[Neal ManBear]

got Razor up and running.. 

     
Excellent!      

[scoundrel]

got Razor up and running.. 

     
Excellent!      

yep... looks pretty sharp..  installed pcmanfm as file manager.. and had to reinstall all the plymouth junk to get a decent looking boot up/down ...

[Crow]

I understand QT put less stress to memory resources, is that right?  what about the load on the CPU?

[Hootiegibbon]

k .. finally got it whipped .. had to install it with unet boot thing and got it up and running on a usb stick ..then installed it..

Great news!

? .. is there supposed to be a panel on the user side as with the root side ?

no, root was meant to mirror that of the user, as minimal as possible, only leaving enough usability to get started with a custom install

I am toying with the idea of removing the existing icewm-light and gdm and having the livecd boot up into a custom X-environment (ie no window manager , possibly using webkit/html as a front end to launch pcc/configuration tools/synaptic/etc via matchbox), the aim here is not to have a usable environment out the box but to provide all teh tools needed to generate a PCLinxuOS based custom install - I am open to thoughts on this, - and open to ideas how to potentially embed a matchbox-window within a html page...  

? .. which desktop is the lightest I can install ??

Lightest in the repo is probably Ratpoison but you will loose all bling, and be more reliant on key bindings than menu apps, IceWM-Light IS the lightest "traditional" window manager,but lacks a clock etc,  the normal IceWM is not much heavier and has everything you expect a window manager and is very very configurable, next up would probably be fvwm2 or blackbox (blackbox is slightly higher maintenance for keeping menus up to date etc) the tiling window managers are light also, WMii has teh power of a virtual file system and the ability to be configured in pretty much any language (bash,ruby,perl,python etc).

Razor, is a "light" QT environment , likely to be a little heavier than the above, but have looks similar to that of KDE, there a myriad qt apps including "qtfm" which is a file manager in qt, a qt web(kit based) browser "arora" or "rekonq" the latter MAY bring in the kde base though (although that may not be too bad in a qt-derived system and would open up having kde apps in a non-kde environment. (you may want to add "export DE=kde" to bashrc though)    

I was toying with the idea of releasing a "Q&D" Razor iso, maybe later though  

Jase