Review: CCux Linux
CCux Linux is a performance-oriented distribution whose main idea is to remove everything that is not i686-related, such as old compatibility packages, and to have everything from the kernel up compiled in the i686 flavor. Last month's release of CCux version 0.9.8 is also an up-to-date distro, having kernel 2.6.16, KDE 3.5.2, and Firefox 1.5.0.2. I found it to be a damn good distro.
CCux includes an easy-to-use custom graphical installer. While it lacks many of the options Anaconda offers, it does have everything you need, starting from a graphical partitioning tool, package selection, and ability to select the root password.
Booting the system is, as you might guess, fast, once you figure out the network interfaces. I have two network adapters, eth0 and eth1. CCux will automatically get a network address via the DHCP client daemon (dhcpcd) on eth0. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for me, since eth0 is my internal network. Other Linux distros run dhcpcd on all network interfaces at boot time, and possibly even in background, which is a nice touch. I had to make a few configuration mods by editing /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth1, but I got CCux to perform dhcpcd on eth1 at boot time.
For those booting both Windows and Linux, CCux works well. It won't detect the Windows system, and it won't detect any Windows partitions, but it supports reading NTFS. Just edit /etc/fstab and you're set.
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