PCLinuxOS Minime - 2008
GNOME has irritated me out of my wits yet again. Looks like I just cant use the same desktop environment for more than like 10 months. So for now I'm back to KDE on PCLinuxOS Minime. Now now, I know I wrote a "highly appraising" review about Ubuntu Gutsy earlier, but this piece of distro kicks balls! Although I dont understand why they dont use more spaces. As in PC Linux OS would have made much more sense than PCLinuxOS.
Anyways, the minime version comes with almost no pre-installed packages and libraries (which means it's as small as around 250 MB) which gives you the choice to customize as you like it from scratch. All I had to do was download some 400MB of stuff through the Synaptic Package Manager and so far the system is working perfectly fine except for a few minor problems including-
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