Porteus 1.1 RC1 Features Linux Kernel 3.1

Porteus,  a portable Linux operating system which can be installed on a portable USB device, CDROM, SD card or hard drive, and based on the Linux Live Scripts, has just reached version 1.1 RC1.

Porteus is recognized as one of the fastest booting Linux distro and according to its community, and this latest version is still the fastest.

According to the developers, the Porteus 1.1 RC1 contains Linux kernel 3.1 RC10, updated graphic stack and various packages (still compatible with Slackware 13.37).

Init scripts are optimized to maximum so users can get the fastest booting experience possible.

Porteus has switched to UTF-8 by default and KDE SC 4.7.2 is stripped down from Nepomuk and rebuilt with new GCC flags. Therefore, memory usage measured straight after boot went down from 340MB (Porteus 1.0) to 250MB (Porteus 1.1 RC1).

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