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(If you have not done so, you can read the dailies from day one HERE)

Tonight the second of our Reader Voted Lightweight Distros. Linux Mint XFCE, the second Mint to grace this series.

I couldn’t wait to check out this one. Linux mint has again become a favorite of ours, and the XFCE version of it promised to deliver.

Did it?

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(If you want to work through the series from DAY 1 click HERE)

Right, we are now at the first of our extra distros, voted in by you folks. Today our victim is Peppermint OS, the newest version based on Ubuntu Lucid.

What did we think?

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• my #FF for 2day @corrie206 IT Guy Extraordinaire @AndyWandy Changing the world one striker at a time @IvoVegter looks fetching in orange #
• @kmf thanks for the #FF in reply to kmf #
• My 2nd #FF for today: @kmf FLOSS champion and all round nice guy, @alastairotter the force behind @tectoniclive #
• TO anyone who does not know me that well – I HATE windows, and I HATE anything provided by @softlinepastel – seriously your products suck #
• Re-installing @softlinepastel AGAIN. Oh the joys of working with proprietary software and vendor lock-in. #
• @hindsjeff hell no. in reply to hindsjeff #
• @hindsjeff I am not sure I would do even that – I hold international companies to high standards, no nokia (iran) no apple (child labor) etc in reply to hindsjeff #
• did you know @softlinepastel gets borked when one of the pcs using it has a date in the future? What a great Friday I am having, thanks guys #
• @letstalkgeek Thanks guys – you okes are stunning. in reply to letstalkgeek #
• My 3rd #FF for today: @letstalkgeek my favourite Geek Chatshow. Nominate their blog for #SaBlogAwards at http://goo.gl/TMzt #
• #FF @ElzjevanRooyen my pretty wife and fellow g33q #
• Love it when people use what they are responsible for and try to force other people to their whims. #powercorrupts #
• @corrie206 you HAVE to tell that one in reply to corrie206 #
• @corrie206 you seriously persona non grata in the USA?! Wow. in reply to corrie206 #
• @IvoVegter Hey, I know some guys that were in the army back then, maybe one will know… in reply to IvoVegter #
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• Well the page is up, kinda… #
• Aaand a better picture… #
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• Our weekly roundup is pending. This week I muse about (Prospective) Employers and your Facebook/Twitter. Should they have access or not? #
• http://letstsalkgeek.net/audio-stream/ going live now! Join in the fun! We even have video. Barry looks hotness in a pink shirt tonite. #ltg #
• Day 8 of our Distro Roundup. Today it is Puppy linux, and I am impressed. Click on "Blog" above to have a look see. #
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• We have updated all the entries in the Distro Roundup Series with links to either the ISO files or download pages of the Distros we tested. #

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(For the first day of this series READ HERE)

Hi, Quintin here. For the most part I am flying solo today. I came back late from the Lets Talk Geek podcast last night where I elbowed myself into being their guest for the week and I did not have the chance to get Elzje’s insight into our featured distro for the day.

I will add it later after one of her epic dinners.

On to the day then… continue reading…

(If you are new to this series you can start reading from DAY ONE here.)

Day Seven.

I decided Elzje and I are gonna cheat today.

Instead of going all out and testing another distro I thought it a good idea to stand back a bit and summarize some of our experiences of these past days.

We both learned some new things, have formed some opinions and had some notions shattered. Read on for some insights into our week with lightweight distros.

And this time I give Elzje the floor first… continue reading…

(If you haven’t done so, you may read this series from DAY ONE here.)

Today we hit up our lightest of lightweight distros. It fits in 20MB less than Damn Small Linux, when installed uses 65MB of RAM, and boots in less than ten seconds (depending on hardware).

Yes. Today we try out Slitaz Cooking.

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(You can read this series from DAY ONE here.)

Day Five. If you are wondering, yes we have had other things going on this weekend. Among the things I did was try and get Dreamlinux 3.5 working for Elzje, and I spent my Friday evening with my friend Renier Meyer painting a wall in his new house and eating epic pizza.

On to Day 5 then…

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• CUPS – I love you. *hug* #
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• #blog #sageek Lightweight Distro Roundup – Seven Days Seven Distros http://ow.ly/2pOrH #
• #blog #sageekblog New Post: Daily Snippets For Monday 16 August http://ow.ly/2qnpo #
• #blog #sageekblog New Post: Review Lubunt 10.04 http://ow.ly/2qnqV #
• I am grumpy because I haven't eaten yet… ooh! Hamsters are on special at the petshop! #drawyourownconclusions #
• hands @alastairotter a magnifying glass… in reply to alastairotter #
• My Twifficiency score is 40%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/ #
• phew – did everyone else have a really craptastic Tuesday? Wow this day was LOOONG and hectic… #
• Note to all Linux PPL working with CUPS – Win 7 needs a "hotfix" to work with IPP – a hotfix requested via e-mail. #techsupport #
• a hotfix that. does. not. work. #techsupport #
• Just gr8! I cannot delete printer because a document is still in queue. I cannot delete document because printer is "pending Deletion" #win7 #
• #ltg Oracle Sues Google http://ow.ly/2rrYy #
• RT @corrie206 being a ninja today (So am I – looking for someone to jump on and gut with my short sword) in reply to corrie206 #
• A girl throwing a hissyfit is an awesome persuasion @bazzareido How did u swing that? RT @cecilia_vdm: Upgraded to Business Class! Yesssss!! in reply to bazzareido #
• any other $buntu users running into plugin-container thrashing the CPU since the last update? It is Firefox related. #
• Correction to my previous tweet – we are at day FOUR http://ow.ly/2s24j with sabayon LXDE #
• Good Night All. Bedtime – will be thinking of all the Nurses and doctors working right now. Respect. And to those working tomorrow: G'luck! #

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(You can read from DAY 1 here.)

Day Four. Wow this has been a whirlwind series for us, and after today THREE MORE DAYS! (Plus maybe a few extras – we’ll see…)

Today we give Sabayon Five-Oh a run. Three of the four distros we reviewed this week have been using LXDE as its desktop environment.

Sabayon is the first distro we are having a look at that have not been Ubuntu based or a variant of Ubuntu.

Is different better? continue reading…