The Trench Reynolds Report

  • The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge: PCLinuxOS LXDE 2014 Desktop

    Yes it has been two years since I’ve done the EEE PC Challenge. For those of you new to the site I have an Asus EEE PC 701 4G Surf. It was the first generation of netbooks. The problem with it is that it only has a 4GB hard drive and the Linux distro that…

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  • PCLinuxOS MiniMe

    Yesterday I complained about PCLinuxOS and how I thought it was a buggy and ugly distro and how I couldn’t even get MiniMe to boot to my laptop. On the urging of a commenter (which is rare around here), I gave PCLinuxOS, specifically MiniMe, another try. I found the command I needed to get it…

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  • My Linux weekend

    Ok, so I spent most of my weekend trying out some new Linux distros. New to me anyway. First up was PCLinuxOS and their 2007 release. I don’t know why PCLinuxOS is so highly touted. I found it to be clunky, buggy and ugly. Then I realized I’m supposed to be trying PCLinuxOS MiniMe. I…

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  • OpenSUSE

    So last night I gave OpenSUSE a try. Trying Linux distros has become my new smoking. Anyway, I didn’t care for it. I couldn’t get past the start menu, or quickstart, or whatever it’s called. I’m too used to not having to click on a start menu to get it to drill down. If someone…

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