Pyrolinux 1.0 Gives Off Little Heat    Monday, January 07 2008 @ 02:40 PM EST Contributed by: sde It's not every day you see the launch of a brand new Linux distribution, so when I heard that Pyrolinux 1.0 was released over Christmas, I thought I'd take a look. Pyrolinux is based on Linux Mint, which is itself a modified version of Ubuntu, so I suppose the term "new distribution" only loosely applies here. I downloaded the LiveCD from the Pyrolinux web site and despite having only one available download mirror I found it was very fast; the full 700mb image was retrieved in 20 minutes. Placing the disk into the machine, I booted it up and was greeted by the white splash screen (see Figure 1). I chose the default start pyrolinux from the menu and quickly hit a familiar error on my system. I was left with a black screen and the output of a kernel panic as the APIC timer failed. I've had this on all the Ubuntu-based systems I've tried; it's something to do with my motherboard. Interestingly, it was fine with Debian Etch. Read more   [ Views: 1168 ]

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