Parsix comes on a single CD. This is quite surprising, considering the amount of data in it. Pop in the CD and reboot, and a menu comes up asking you to start or install Parsix. It also has options for two wide screen resolutions, checking MD5 hashes for the CD and starting installation in text mode. Anyway, I just hit Enter and watched the CD boot up. On my modest 2.4GHz Pentium 4 'Prescott' with 512 MB of RAM, the CD took an impressive 32 seconds to start X. From then on, it took another 7 seconds to finish booting the system and keep GNOME running. This is without a swap partition.

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Then came the first problem-NTFS drives. Parsix Live boots as a normal user Parsix, and NTFS-3G needs super¬user privileges to access NTFS drives. Blast!
Then I started looking at the software that comes bundled with this distro. Table 1 sums it all up. Please note the Iceweasel browser, which is just the same as Firefox, at version 3.0.1 and the Gnash SWF Player. Gnash was a bit of a surprise to me, considering that it was not stable enough. But it's good.