My blog started as brief reviews, or even self-addressed notes, of “pocket” Linux distributions. SLAX was series one, shortly followed by Knoppix and Puppy. Then, as we grown my believe in Linux, we started to dive into a universe of bigger distributions: Ubuntu and Kubuntu, Debian and PCLOS, and many more.
But “pocket Linux” is still a fondle we adore to play with. That’s because we have returned to that theme again and have finished reviews of SliTaz 4.0 and Puppy Slacko 5.3.1.

Today we wish to develope this theme a tiny more, and speak about another “pocket” distance Linux distribution. It won’t be one-man show, though. Let me deliver my today’s guest: Ahau from a Porteus Linux team.
DarkDuck: Hello! You are a member of a Porteus team. Could we greatfully deliver yourself?
Ahau: Hi, we am “Ahau”. we keep my genuine name confidential. we am a member of a Porteus Team. we offer as a Documentation Team Leader, judge on a forum, and maintainer for a XFCE editions of Porteus. I’m 32 years old, from a US, and we have been concerned as a member of a Porteus Community given a pregnancy in Dec 2010. Before that, we was a user of Slax and “Slax Remix”, from that Porteus evolved.
DD: Are there some-more people in a project?
A: Yes, there are several people concerned in a project. In further to myself we have a lead maintainer (fanthom, who started Slax Remix), a 32-bit maintainer (brokenman), and several people who minister modules, applications, support and support on a forums. We cruise ourselves a “Portable Linux Community”, and we take suggestions and contributions, theme to examination by a maintainers, from anyone who joins adult and is interested.
DD: Is there any grave plan leader? Who creates a final decision?
A: Fanthom is a lead maintainer and he would make a final preference in a box of any disagreements, though we customarily strech a accord on decisions even before anything like a opinion is needed.
DD: You picked adult a SLAX project, that was stagnating after Tomas M. motionless not to continue with a development. Now we have a opposite distribution. Why have we motionless to do so?
A: Fanthom started Slax Remix after growth on Slax was suspended. He did this in an bid to keep Slax stream with a newer kernel, rebased on a newer recover of Slackware, and he enclosed bugfixes and other customizations. He also built and expelled a 64-bit book featuring KDE4, that had never existed for Slax. He didn’t intend on starting a apart distribution, though progressing his plan on a third-party forum became illogical after roughly a year of growth and 9 releases.
DD: we listened that Tomas M. is entrance behind to SLAX project. What are your relations with his plan now?
A: We have many members that also Slax users, and we still revisit a Slax forums on arise to see what’s new there. We don’t have an central growth attribute with a Slax project, though we consider Slax is a good placement and we’re carefree to see some-more releases from Tomas M. in a future.
DD: Am we right in arrogance that Porteus Linux was never dictated to be a primary OS on a computer, though rather a “pocket” distribution, that one could use on others’ computers to have his favourite environment?
A: we consider it’s satisfactory to contend that Porteus is optimized to run from a CD or USB peep drive, though it’s also only as easy to implement Porteus on a tough expostulate for use as a primary OS. In fact, it will substantially foot and run even faster this way. One of a arch goals in building Porteus is progressing and enhancing flexibility. As we know, a name of a placement is subsequent from a difference “Portable” and “Proteus”, a greek God of a seas. A lot of a tone schemes and art work have H2O themes, and we like to consider of a placement as something that can be ecstatic in any enclosure and used for a accumulation of functions while maintaining a strange qualities, only like water. The placement itself is reduction than 300 MB and program can be simply combined and private in a form of xzm “modules” to fit a specific needs of a user, possibly it be for use as a primary OS, liberation tool, unstable distro, or anything else.
DD: Does Porteus Linux have a immeasurable community? What would we contend about a members?
A: We currently have only over 500 members on a forum, that is tiny compared to a incomparable distributions out there. But, we’re new and we’re growing, and when folks ask questions, they get a response. I’m ceaselessly speedy by a knowledge, skill, and welcoming inlet of a members. I’ve done many good friends in a community, and we demeanour brazen to my interactions there. We have an embedded discuss window for members on a forum, and it’s good for newbies with elementary questions and also for a members and contributors to get to know any other on a some-more personal level. It’s been a lot of fun operative with everybody there!
DD: The stream fast chronicle of Porteus is 1.1. Are there any skeleton for destiny releases? When will they be? What new will we see there?
A: Yes, Porteus chronicle 1.2 is in develompent right now; a second recover claimant is already accessible for download in a contrast territory of a server. The final chronicle should follow shortly. Porteus 1.2 will underline a further of a XFCE desktop sourroundings (available as a apart ISO) as good as a rewritten package manager (Porteus Package Manager, or PPM), a new GUI installer, a rewritten Langauge Selection Tool, and a rewritten “Save.dat Manager” that will concede some-more options and functionality (such as information encryption and a choice of filesystems) for users who wish to save their changes steadfastly on FAT or NTFS partitions.
DD: What are possess your favourite distributions, desktop environments, applications?
A: Obviously, Porteus is my favorite, and we still suffer Slax. we also like Puppy and SliTaz, though a immeasurable infancy of my time is spent in Porteus. I’ve only started messing with Android, if we can call that a Linux placement (I wouldn’t…). I’m a Xfce maintainer for Porteus, and that is my favorite desktop sourroundings now that I’ve schooled my approach around it. we consider Xfce has a right brew of functionality, beauty, and configurability, though it’s still light and intuitive. we cite KDE over Gnome, and we consider LXDE is a good DE as well.
DD: Do we review a blog Linux records from DarkDuck? What would we like to urge or change there?
A: we don’t review each blog entry, though we do stop by on occasion, we generally like your reviews of “pocket” distributions, as we like to know what other distros are adult to, and how they are receieved.
DD: Do we review any other blogs or FOSS-related web resources regularly? Who are your favourite authors, bloggers, reporters essay about FOSS?
A: we don’t follow many blogs, though we do keep adult on a XFCE forums and mailing lists, and we revisit distrowatch.com. we spend a lot of time researching a web perplexing to solve problems or learn how to do things, so we tend to rebound around a lot. we do have to give a shoutout to a folks during archwiki and gentoo-wiki, I’ve schooled a lot from their articles.
DD: Thanks for coming, Ahau. we wish to keep in hold and have another talk with possibly yourself, or maybe other members of Porteus group later.
A: Thanks for carrying me, DarkDuck! Feel giveaway to hit myself or anyone on a group if you’d like to do another interview, and greatfully try Porteus 1.2 when it’s released. We wish we and your readers suffer it!
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