TinyMe 2010 "Acorn" RC 1

TinyMe 2010 “Acorn” i586 Release Candidate 1 has shipped! This release largely consists of bugfixes and package upgrades. TinyCC, the desktop configuration tool from TinyMe 2008, has made a reappearance. Every issue on the issue tracker, except one very minor issue, has been cleared for this release.

TinyMe is a Unity-based distribution targeted at older computers and people who want a very light and fast desktop environment.

Although TinyMe comes as a small, 200MB ISO, it provides tools for most of your everyday wants and needs:

• Kernel 2.6.31.12
• SLiM logs you in
• Pragha, audio player
• AbiWord, a light and fast yet powerful word processor
• Midori, web browser
• Ayttm, instant chat client. Handles IRC, AIM-ICQ, Jabber, LiveJournal, MSN, Yahoo, and even can send e-mails via SMTP.
• Osmo, personal information manager
• Sylpheed, e-mail client
• Viewnior, image viewer
• Recorder, disk burner
• Asunder, a CD ripper
• MtPaint, a basic image editor (also takes screenshots)
• MEdit, a tabbed text editor
• MuPDF, a very small PDF viewer
• Conky, a small system monitor
• Parcellite, a very small clipboard utility
• TightVNC Viewer, view the screen of another computer over a network
• Tilda, a Quake-esque terminal similar to Yakuake– just press F12 (F1 in the root account¹⁾) to pull down from the top of your screen!

Openbox is the session and window manager, PCManFM manages the desktop, and LXPanel provides the panel.

Please report any issues here: http://tinymelinux.com/forum/forum-21.html

• Fixed extraneous Smart mirror issue.
• Added TinyCC, a desktop configuration tool.
• Tilda and Parcellite do not start up on the LiveCD. This should save a little RAM.
• Added drivers for zd1211 wireless card.
• Added Gnome-PPP and WVDial for dial-up users.
• Added Sudoku Savant game.
• Updated kernel, Smart, AbiWord, Ayttm, Conky, LXPanel, Midori, Openbox, Osmo, Pragha, Sylpheed, Transmission, and Viewnior (see table below).
• Several SLiM changes:
  • Fixed GDM compatibility issue
  • SLiM no longer uses ~/.xinitrc
• Midori should no longer crash on startup.
• MEdit replaces MP-5.
• Login information box now appears when you start up the LiveCD.
• New cursor theme and additional GTK themes, courtesy of Johnny of Ultimate Edition. Thank you, Johnny!
• Removed testdisk to clear some space.

NOTE: Follow the errata and to-do lists here: http://tinymelinux.com/forum/tracker/project-1.html

• The ATi proprietary driver for Xorg 1.7 is not yet available. The free driver offers limited 3D capabilities.
• If you are having an issue with setup of hardware or configuring hardware in the system control center, you will have to upgrade the drak tools:
  • Go to http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinyme/2009/i586/main/ and download all the RPMs (except drakxtools-http) to a new folder on a USB drive. Plug the USB drive into your TinyMe system and navigate to the folder which has the RPMs. Press F4 to open a terminal and run:

su
#[give root password]
rpm -Uvh *rpm

• Try setting up your hardware again.

• MuPDF: maybe change file selection script from gfilechooser (gtkdialogs) to pygtk
• Package up TinyCC and other TinyMe scripts.

You may get this release on the test download page.

KDulcimer owes much to:

• The Unity Linux development team. Without them, there would be no TinyMe.
• PaulH for providing valuable bug reports for Midori, ZD1211, and the Dvorak keyboard issue.
• Everybody who pointed out issues with TinyMe 2010 Beta 2.
• Johnny of Ultimate Edition for the new cursor theme.