Hello !
I've spent the WE testing TCE 3.7.1 on my ASUS eee 1000H, booting from a SD card, and here are my comments I'd like to share with the community (they are not specific to NetBooks I think) :
Good points:
- starts very quickly : i'm in Chromium in less than 40 sec. (booting from SD card) ready to surf on the Net (wired LAN) !
- stops very quickly : about 7 sec. (with no backup of course)
- no useless features, take just what you need from apps repository !
- quite quick for this small PC
Bad points
- non-US keyboard +[AltGr] key OK with FAQ tip (boot code doesn't work) except for Euro sign (I have to investigate further)
- Firefox 5.0 :
application/extension links work only if application (vlc, epdfview...) has already been started at least one time
ugly small font (it was nicer in previous release)
no cursor !
some windows open (not ad' pop-up) but I can't close them because no [X] in the corner ! (I have to xkill window +kill Firefox ps!)
- Chromium : hyper speed but no ABP filter (install problem, the confirmation button quickly disappears)
some windows open (not ad' pop-up) but I can't close them because no [X] in the corner ! (I have to xkill window)
no history purge on exit (OK if TC off with 'no backup')
videos do not start directly from browser
- flpicsee : animated GIF not handled, slideshow KO
- epdfview : very slow on big PDF >1Mo (i.e.:bus map)
- foxitreader KO!
- AppBrowser : search function KO !!!(regression!)
- xarchiver : 7zip not handled !?!
- OpenOffice 3 : OK!
To do:
- find how to put resolution 1024x600 (I'm now in 800x600
)
- backup : none by default, if possible ?
- setup wifi
QUESTIONS
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Could you tell me your prefered software in TC for these categories :
Browser (Chromium, Firefox...) ?
PDF viewer ?
Pic viewer ?
Archiver ?
Thanks !
Regards,
Steve.
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FYI:
My boot parameters
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waitusb=4
initrd=/TC371/tinycore.gz
lang=fr
kmap=fr.latin1
tce=sdb1
BOOT_IMAGE=/TC371/bzImage
Started "On boot"
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kmaps
alsa
flash10
chromium-browser-locale
Installed modules (about 300MB in /tce)
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alsa
alsa-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore
atk
bsddb
bzip2-lib
cairo
chromium-browser
chromium-browser-locale
curl
dbus
dbus-glib
dejavu-fonts-ttf
expat2
file
flash10
fontconfig
GConf
gdk-pixbuf2
glib2
graphics-libs-1
gst-plugins-base
gstreamer
gtk2
gudev-lib
hicolor-icon-theme
hunspell
icu
input-joystick-2.6.33.3-tinycore
iso-codes
kmaps
libasound
libcups
libevent
libgcrypt
libglade
libgpg-error
libiconv
libIDL
libnotify
libogg
liboil
liborc
libpci
libstartup-notification
libtheora
libvorbis
libxcb
libxcb-util
libxft
libxml2
libxslt
ncurses
ncurses-common
nspr
nss
openclipart-png
openjpeg
openoffice3
openssl-0.9.8
ORBit2
pango
pci-utils
pixman
poppler
python
readline
rox-filer
shared-mime-info
silgraphite
sqlite3
squashfs-tools-4.x
tcl
tk
ttf-bitstream-vera
udev-lib
Xorg-7.5-lib
xulrunner