Under these rocks and stones

“In the past few months I’ve found that I have been focused a
lot on the bigger names in the Linux and BSD communities. I have
been looking at the mainstream distributions and the headlines and
generally enjoying the view. However, an important part of the open
source community is all the little projects which dot the landscape
and it’s a good idea to stop and examine those too from time to
time. Keeping that in mind, this week I decided to do a series of
rapid-fire reviews in which I took a quick look at the following
distributions.

“Me-OS

“Me-OS is a new distribution (started in February 2010), created
by Josh Secrest. The young distribution sits on an openSUSE 11.3
base and has a strong ease-of-use focus. The project’s website is
small with a pleasant blue and white theme and the project has a
friendly and informal feel common to one-person efforts. The
project currently offers one ISO download, a 32-bit live CD.

“Booting the live disc displays a boot menu with options for
adjusting the video settings, language and setting kernel
parameters. Booting into the live CD brings us to a GNOME 2.30
desktop with a bright, watery background. The first thing I noticed
was a large search box in the middle of the desktop, which works as
an application launcher. At the top of the desktop is a quick
launch bar, at the bottom is a regular application menu and a
taskbar. A collection of icons sit on the desktop, providing links
to the user’s home directory, an application updater, the system
installer, an icon which opens an informal introduction to the
operating system, and two icons labelled “App Center” and
“Essential Software”.”

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