Convince me on going for TinyMe, lol

[CAVT]

Hi all,

Well, the title is strange, but as you read you'll understand it:
Since a couple of months ago I switched almost completely from Windows to PCLinux, dragged by the idea of boosting the performance of my PC, which is a decent machine, but I alwasy want more. I'm happy with it but curisity drags me always to small lighweight systems, and since I'm happy with PCLOS I'm tempted to try MiniMe, TinyMe and DSL. The one I like more I'll try puting it in my parents's PC (if they decide for the change, lol), which I also happen to use everytime I visit them, and perhaps in my own one permanently.
Now, the KDE environment offers me what I need, a decent performance, support, and many useful applications, some of them not available (or at least not so "cooly" available) in Windows and that I find very useful (please don't ask me to write them all, my memory lasts only 5 minutes and then it goes away, like fishes). Is the new TinyMe 2010 based on PCLinux 2010 or at least any other PClinux distribution? I know it uses LXDE as a desktop, but how compatible is it with KDE apps and packages? Can I install any KDE app? In case I can, will it's performance go down by much? Will it be faster than KDE still? Which advantages do you think LXDE offers above KDE (in appearence they look similar to me)?. On a more technical side, which repos do you reccomend for me to select, specially the PCLinux ones since they are migrating now to 2010 version? PCLinux allows many times to use Mandriva, Fedora, Suse and RedHat rpms, does TinyMe have that capacity?. Mmm, to put it in other way, which compatibility problems may I expect software and hardware related?
I'm sorry if they are many questions and if they sound too newbie-like, but I just want to be on safe ground in case problems arise. If you think some questions can be answered giving other suggestions than the ones I ask, feel free to post them. In case it's useful to you, I don't look for eye-candy stuff but free RAM and CPU, as I study engineering I need the most of the time number crunching softwares and usually have more than 4 or five apps opened at the same time (the multidesktop thing is a blessing here), and occasionally I virtualize Windows because of some special 3D design softwares that don't have equivalent in Linux (yet...). My PC is AMD Sempron LE-1100 32bit, 2GB RAM, built-in NVidia Videocard.
Thank you very much in advance.

César

[frog]

(05-01-2010 10:04 AM)CAVT Wrote:  Hi all,

Well, the title is strange, but as you read you'll understand it:
Since a couple of months ago I switched almost completely from Windows to PCLinux, dragged by the idea of boosting the performance of my PC, which is a decent machine, but I alwasy want more. I'm happy with it but curisity drags me always to small lighweight systems, and since I'm happy with PCLOS I'm tempted to try MiniMe, TinyMe and DSL. The one I like more I'll try puting it in my parents's PC (if they decide for the change, lol), which I also happen to use everytime I visit them, and perhaps in my own one permanently.
Now, the KDE environment offers me what I need, a decent performance, support, and many useful applications, some of them not available (or at least not so "cooly" available) in Windows and that I find very useful (please don't ask me to write them all, my memory lasts only 5 minutes and then it goes away, like fishes). Is the new TinyMe 2010 based on PCLinux 2010 or at least any other PClinux distribution? I know it uses LXDE as a desktop, but how compatible is it with KDE apps and packages? Can I install any KDE app? In case I can, will it's performance go down by much? Will it be faster than KDE still? Which advantages do you think LXDE offers above KDE (in appearence they look similar to me)?. On a more technical side, which repos do you reccomend for me to select, specially the PCLinux ones since they are migrating now to 2010 version? PCLinux allows many times to use Mandriva, Fedora, Suse and RedHat rpms, does TinyMe have that capacity?. Mmm, to put it in other way, which compatibility problems may I expect software and hardware related?
I'm sorry if they are many questions and if they sound too newbie-like, but I just want to be on safe ground in case problems arise. If you think some questions can be answered giving other suggestions than the ones I ask, feel free to post them. In case it's useful to you, I don't look for eye-candy stuff but free RAM and CPU, as I study engineering I need the most of the time number crunching softwares and usually have more than 4 or five apps opened at the same time (the multidesktop thing is a blessing here), and occasionally I virtualize Windows because of some special 3D design softwares that don't have equivalent in Linux (yet...). My PC is AMD Sempron LE-1100 32bit, 2GB RAM, built-in NVidia Videocard.
Thank you very much in advance.

César

[CAVT]

Frog, thanks for the quick reply, but unfortuantely your reply text is not showing to me, I only see my own post quoted. Would you mind reposting your anwer, please? Thank you.

[frog]

For your AMD:
1. Download the following:
a. UBUNTU: http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubun...-amd64.iso
b. PUPPY: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/dis...up-431.iso
c. UNITY: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/unity/i...10-RC1.iso
2. Burn each to CD, creating Live CD's.
3. Try each. The UNITY appears to be close to TinyMe, without the annoying login screen.

Here is my personal quick test of an OS. For PUPPY, boot help and paste m00n.awardspace.co.uk Then press Enter. Boot the 2nd choice, type House into Search, hit go and enjoy a TV show. Check out UNITY & UBUNTU in an identical fashion. Choice is PUPPY for a swift work horse out and about the web. UBUNTU is a giant, where I can free install thousands of specialty quality applications. Later, look into Viper, Macpup & Super OS to compare with PCLOS, which remains one of my favorites. I still prefer the 2007 PCLOS for a wired computer. This computer summery:

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack -
DirectX 4.08.01.0810 (DirectX 8.1)
Computer Name LT-JKAFRKXFUZIW (Home)
User Name Administrator

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2666 MHz (20 x 133)
Motherboard Name Dell OptiPlex SX260
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845G
System Memory 253 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Phoenix (05/29/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter Intel Extreme Graphics
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]

Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Disk Drive WDC WD1600BEVE-00UYT0 (127 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124 (24x CD-ROM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (FAT32) 3021 MB (1788 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 5012 MB (4008 MB free)
E: (NTFS) 10009 MB (7315 MB free)
F: (FAT32) 30020 MB (29220 MB free)
Total Size 46.9 GB (41.3 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse

Network:
Network Adapter Sagem XG703 USB 802.11g (10.0.0.64)

Peripherals:
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB2 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
USB Device Sagem XG703 USB 802.11g
USB Device USB Audio Device
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

The junk LCD monitor gives me "Out of Range" on 2010 PCLOS live CD's regardless of the desktop version. FYI my DOB is 1930. Regards, Frog

[KDulcimer]

TinyMe is based on Unity, not PCLinuxOS. All the repos you need should be already selected in Smart.

As for adding in KDE, you can do that, but I can't tell you what the performance difference will be.