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Been awhile since I have updated the site. Went to Europe for awhile. Got to go to Rome, Venice, Florence and then London. Simply amazing stuff. Really makes you realize how young the USA is.

Anyways, I see some of you have been asking for the PLUS edition. I'll upload it this weekend but like all things it is already out of date.

I have built a new iso based on 8.04 before I went on my vacation. I'll upload that as well.

I also played a bit with PCLinuxOS and was able to almost entirely recreate my LAVA using it as a base also. I might upload it so people can check it out. It seems faster on my hardware than UBUNTU and I wonder if it is just the tweaking of the kernel or runtime parameters like sysctl - going to have to do some research cause although I like the speed, PCLinuxOS has a smaller support personnel and less software available thru its package manager than Ubuntu.

I will say for having a lighter support infrastructure and less developers on it, the distro is faster and seems to run on lighter hardware. I was able to install it on a laptop that Ubuntu won't even run live on and that includes the infamous Xubuntu as well. Previously my only other distros I could get on the laptop was Windozes XP and Fedora. Partly cause Fedora automatically initializes the swap file and uses it during install and the Ubuntu and Xubuntu do not. Since the laptop in question only has 128 MB, it was problematic with Ubuntu and Xubuntu and even though I knew this and manually created and initialized the swap file, I think just running the live environment was too much for it. I suppose if I really wanted to I could have downloaded the alternate version of Ubuntu and installed everything from the commandline but that's just too much work especially since the laptop is not one I regularly use. It's more of a benchmark or challenge to any OS I want to check out. "Hmmmm, wonder if it will load on that old laptop of mine."

Anyways, I'll do some uploading this weekend and hope to hear next week how everyone is doing.

As they say in Europe, ciao.