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| PCLinuxOS 2008 "MiniMe" is available |
| 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. Also included are NdisWrapper support files.
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This new version contains "ndiswrapper" and a number of shortcuts to enable you to get certain awkward wireless cards working.
This is in a Utilities folder which also contains shortcuts to add ATi/Nvidia drivers, ALSA setup, Make Live CD, Make Live USB stick, and Redo MBR (if Windows ate your master boot record and broke access to installed Linux). Also to setup your Clock.
This means that ONLY the keyboard selection pops up when booting the live CD.
Another major change is that you are not prompted for root and user passwords during installation of the Live CD, this is done on first bootup instead. There is no longer an option not to have a root password.
What I would recommend to users in the UK is that you run Synaptic once you have got your internet connection working, and change the default repository using "Settings > Repositories" to a European one, Belnet, nl.freebsd or Heanet especially, you will get faster download speeds that way. Default is ibiblio which can be slow from the UK.
For Download
Click here to download: http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=28
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