Porteus

Reader supplied reviews for Porteus Average rating 8.1 from 18 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Porteus? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 5.1-alpha35.014.03.2.23.13.0.12.12.01.21.11.0 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 5.01 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-01-04 Votes: 2 Porteus KISK alternative Thin Client ========================== Was not a bad idea, simple, light, but plenty of bugs, and ennoying to prepare and use in the real life. Pay if you want save... Old versions of thinclient are deleted from repo and inacessible, why ? F the latest 6.xx tc version, it is mandatory to subscribe online to download the file. Impossible to use without making an online profile which is linked to one id. All is based on money in this wunderfull world. Don't use it, prefer MX Live CD linux open source. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.01 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-08-07 Votes: 6 The author doesn't seem interested in updating the SAL certificates on their website. Additionally several packages seem outdated and otherwise misconfigured. I get worried when it seems like there's no attention to detail in the distribution as that's where the problems start with security and maintainability. Slack is pretty long in tooth also and new users may not know how to use it. Most distros these days are moving towards some form of immutable configuration and containers support and this seems to be lacking also. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 5.01 Rating: 7 Date: 2024-07-23 Votes: 2 The Good: Fast, Small and reliable at least for casual usage. All the downloads are under 500MB installation boots in seconds as promised. The Bad: Some configuration annoyances in the openbox version I use. Setting time zone did nothing so had to manually force it at startup. Same kind of problems with desired resolution, I tried the startup scripts feature but no luck for me so manually forcing thi also. Only manual editing the tint2 launcher bar icons, this more of a tint2 feature than porteus fault, but it could be mentioned on the user manual / tips section somewhere. Updates doesn't seem to come very often so manual labour needed when you marry this with a not so intuitive package manager it not the most smooth experience. Opinion: personally I enjoy using it for my occasional needs because of the tiny installation size and fast boot times. Not many of these kind of distros that I know of these days. Puppy is +700MB TinyCore is super basic under 250MB SliTaz updated last time 2014 according to distrowatch antiX-base is around 1GB As they advertise on hte porteus web page in light kiosk usage this could be the perfect solution. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 18 reader reviews of Porteus...