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Right.

Decision time.

We have taken much longer than the original envisioned seven days. In this entry we decide on the best distro in each of the following categories: Grandma Distro, Elzje’s Favorite, Quintins Favorite, Best Utility Distro/Best USB Boot Disk, Best Ultra lightweight Distro.

Let’s Dive in: continue reading…

I think we may have found our perfect LXDE distro. PCLOS LXDE is a bit of a surprise. After I thoroughly blasted the Gnome and KDE versions I avoided adding it to this series, but was convinced by a commenter to give it a try.

I am glad we did. continue reading…

(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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(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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(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…

(You can read DAY 2 here and DAY 1 here.)

Day 3, and today we took a look at Xubuntu.

Xubuntu is the original lightweight Ubuntu. XFCE has long been considered the perfect balance between light weight and feature completeness.

What does Xubuntu offer then? continue reading…