This review is of the standard Xfce version, not the light one.

The live DVD had similar problems to the KDE version, though it was slightly more responsive. Icecat was still paranoid, while Midori looked like the output from a dot-matrix printer. Kino and Cinelerra were not working, but the other software seemed satisfactory.

The installer actually worked this time, but subsequent booting was an odd process as it asked for my screen configuration every time and seemed to turn automatic log-in on and off at random. I tried to get the media codecs using the software installer, and found that it had to be run logged-in as root or else it tried to use sudo, which was not set up. When I finally told it to install what looked like codecs, two files installed but the third gave a mysterious error message. In fact, no patented codecs were installed. I’d be happy to read the manual, but there isn’t one. I suppose I could read the Gentoo documentation, but then I might as well install Gentoo.