Beautiful!

[Andy Prough]

Hi,

I downloaded and tried Petite Linux out on VMWare Player on a Windows
Vista laptop yesterday. I think the design is very beautiful. It's
nice to see an enlightenment system with all the openSUSE tools -
especially YaST2 and zypper. Really nice work at making it elegant,
good looking, and packaging it so that it works on a Live CD. I was
able to open it live as well as install it, and took it for a spin -
played some Youtube videos for awhile, hooked it up to Last.fm and
played some streaming music, etc... I was looking under the hood to
see what software you had installed - I am configuring an XFCE version
of openSUSE through the SUSE Studio as well - so I was trying to learn
from some of your software and config choices.

I greatly appreciate the HowTo page - you've put a great collection of
hints for general openSUSE users. I was somehow not aware of the
"zypper up" function to update the system before. Very cool tips.

Overall, I found it ran slower under VMWare than the XFCE version, but
has a lot more eye candy. The Petite Linux installation took about 4X
longer under VMWare than XFCE - but you probably were installing much
more software. I did pick up some kind of java malware later that
evening that was detected by Avast - I assume it could not have been
from downloading your distro off the SUSE Gallery website, but figured
I would warn you about it in case you need to run a scan on it.

[Marianna Apostolaki]

Hi Andy and thanks for your kind remarks.

I haven't used vmware for windows, generally when I need to try out
stuff virtually, I will go with VirtualBox.
There is a chance you need to install certain drivers specific to
vmware in order to get normal performance.
I did see in the zypper repository a package called: vmware-guest-kmp-
default
Maybe you need to install this.

I tried to install the xfce version on virtualbox, however I don't get
anything more than a blue screen and xterm won't start so I can't do
anything other than... log out.
I tried LXDE instead which is a complete derivative also, however it
is definately slower than petite and a log uglier.

The live installer itself is opensuse software and has nothing really
to do with xfce, lxde, petite, etc. It is stock and the only thing
that changes is the packages you have chosen to install.

As for the malware issue you mentioned, the petite site and the
susestudio site don't use java anywhere, and unless google itself is
infected, which would be global news, I dare say that you must have
contracted it somewhere else.
I will run a complete scan on everything I can think of just in case,
however as I said, there is no java on the petite website or on
suseseudio.

Thanks for yout time :)