Whatever Happened to Unity Linux and TinyMe?

As this blog turns eight years old I was reminiscing back to the first few articles and reviews. Initially this was started to only post reviews I for whatever reason couldn't publish on other web sites or if the wait would have been too long as you gotta get them out fresh. Back in the day as an ex-Mandrake/Mandriva user TinyMe and Unity Linux had caught my eye and seemed promising projects although it was clear they were a bit light on manpower.

Unity Linux 2011 to use Arch-Linux-Like Approach

In other news another favorite of mine, at least in the rpm universe, has released an Alpha build of what will be Unity Linux 2011. I reviewed Unity Linux last year on this blog and images were 276MB and 277 MB per architecture, and the subsequent update 2010.2 brought it to well over 300 MB. This time the size is only a 100 odd megabyte and the team is making some significant changes.

A Tinkerers Top 5 Distributions of 2010

In the last few days we've had several posts about personal top 5 favorite distributions of 2010. Everybody has their own favorites, but, for what it's worth, here's my list.

First look at Unity Linux 2010.1 - Mini Review

Unity Linux had their first release on 09/07/2010 after around 1.5 years of development. The project was created in 2009 by former developers from the PClinuxOS (hereafter abbreviated PCLOS) community. [Some contentious and unneccessary stuff snipped ...] One of them was KDulcimer who at the time had his own project TinyMe based on PCLOS, which according to the website started in 2006. His distribution would in the future be based on Unity Linux. So much for how the two are intertwined.