A look at LinuxConsole 1.0.2010

“The LinuxConsole distribution was my dark horse of 2009. It was
a small, French Linux distro which managed to be compact, fast and
included an interesting approach to software management. Aside from
some translation quirks in the distro’s text, I found it to be an
enjoyable system to use. Fast forward about a year and I received a
few e-mails informing me that a new LinuxConsole release was up on
their website. This version, labelled 1.0.2010, was made available
in mid-November and boasts improved module management and a new
desktop in the form of LXDE. The project’s website maintains a
fairly simple layout with a black & white theme and six
translations (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and
Portuguese). There is a small forum for requesting support,
reporting bugs and making suggestions. There is a link to
frequently asked questions on the menu, but at time of writing it
throws up an error saying the page could not be found. The site has
links providing access to the project’s source code, a download
page and a link to additional modules in a section of the site
called the Jukebox.

“We’ll cover more on modules later, but the Jukebox isn’t just
for browsing available modules, it’s also a method by which we can
customize our download image. We can search through the modules by
name and by category and click a link to add a given module to our
custom ISO download. When we’ve added all the modules we want,
we’re given the option of downloading our image file with a regular
or real-time kernel. The server puts it all together and gives us a
download link. A vanilla image is about 80 MB. However, wanting the
default experience, I decided to take the pre-made download, which
weighed in at about 230 MB.”

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