PCLOS 2008 MiniMe -- Was it Possible That...?

[SkittleLinux18]

Many of you may remember my TLFU (Total Linux F--- Up) with PCLOS2008 MiniMe back in October:

See the following:
LFO Post - Still No Luck With Some Things
LFO Post - My Departure From PCLinuxOS

I had been doing some reading and thinking lately since I saw the release of PCLOS2009-Final, and I was wondering if it was possible that what happened to my 2008-MiniMe install was my own doing.

Basically what I am asking is, was it possible that the minimalist distro was so incomplete that the dozens of packages I installed via Synaptic and Apt-Get eventually (over such a long period of time) reached a critical mass point where their dependencies and/or the packages themselves were conflicting and creating instability?

Your thoughts, please? Thank you, much!

SL18

[jayd512]

Basically what I am asking is, was it possible that the minimalist distro was so incomplete that the dozens of packages I installed via Synaptic and Apt-Get eventually (over such a long period of time) reached a critical mass point where their dependencies and/or the packages themselves were conflicting and creating instability?

Hi, Skittle!

While I can't guarantee it, I don't think that would be the problem. Especially if you're installing exclusively via the package manager. After re-reading your No Luck post the only thing I can figure is an update to some app or program that was causing your memory leaks... and even that doesn't add up for me!

[SkittleLinux18]

hey jayd,

So perhaps it was a combination of things. Old/sluggish hardware, application update (The problem with the task bar only occurred when I had kbfx added to the kicker... but i've never had that problem with kbfx on kubuntu... and it was always/only at 4 am!), and maybe just a faulty MiniMe. I would suspect that PCLOS2007 could have been great, but just MiniMe had some slight bugs. idk.

Oh well, I'm going to give 2009 a try on a VM for a while and see what happens.

Thanks for the input, and any other on the way....I would appreciate anything. As you all may or may not remember, that experience caused me to lose data, servers to go down, and a lot of work I had put into that install. That's why I am still obsessing about it after all this time.