To announce the final release of TinyMe a PCLinuxOS remaster for old boxes.
It weighs in at 200MB, uses openbox and lxde desktop and has a nice range of apps.

Give it a try, it is a very good OS IMHO.


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I gave it a try. It looks very nice, it is light but Synaptic will not work. Without Synaptic you can not set up multimedia.I might try it again if they come up with a fix for Synaptic and maybe a guide for multimedia.

AntiX uses less RAM, has multimedia playback, and runs faster on the hardware I tested with.AntiX has very good documentation too.

You have to install the newest iso. The first one that got uploaded gives the synaptic problem. The newest one fixes it.


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ummmm... is it rpm based? Isn't PCLOS based on RH/FC?

Sorry, meant to be a question, not a statement.. __{{emoticon}}__

Yes, TinyMe is rpm-based.
PCLOS is based of Mandriva, I think.

Oh, ok... and Mandriva is based on... lol.. its like a circle, ain't it.

anticapitalista wrote:You have to install the newest iso. The first one that got uploaded gives the synaptic problem. The newest one fixes it.


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I've just downloaded & installed it to my laptop, and it's great. A superb release indeed, and one of only a few that pick up my 1680x1050 widescreen. But as i don't have a wifi access here at my parenst in the UK (I'm here for the week) i can't tell if this is the dodgy release or not. Is there a way to tell from the iso? (Or any other way)

Navigate to /var/lib/apt/lists and see if there is a partial folder.
If it has it, you are ok.

Thanks for the info anti - i've just had a look and there is NO partial folder. I'll D/L the iso again, but can i also just create a"partial" folder to fix this install without having to re-install again?

I created a partial folder and it works, but gives errors sometimes when installing new apps (though it doesn't stop the apps from working properly).
I think this is because it needs to 'repopulate' the missing info from lists when the partial folder got deleted.

Thanks once again anti, that's great. I haven't even connected this install to the net yet, and probably won't until i get home in a week or so, so maybe all will be well. Also, thanks to my short stint with Sidux ( and using sid with antiX) i now hardly every use Synaptic at all. Most times i only use it to find packages that i can't find with apt-cache search, then i use apt-get. __{{emoticon}}__ There's just something incredibly geeky (& hence really good fun) in using the cli for as much as possible!! LOL!

What i'm going to do over the next few days i think, is D/L a few apps (manually) from the Tiny repos, then copy to my laptop (via USB stick) and then install by hand. Never done that before so it should be interesting. I don't even know if Tiny (Being an RPM based distro) uses dpkg , or if it uses something else entirely! __{{emoticon}}__

I installed TinyMe and MiniMe which both are based on PCLinuxOS.

MiniMe is very good as well.