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PCLinuxOS 2K4: Mandrake Meets The Live CD

Posted by timothy on from the and-it's-not-knoppix dept.

NoahsLinuxArk2K3 writes "For those of you who may not be familiar with PCLinuxOS, it's a Linux distro derived from Mandrake Linux 9.2, developed by none other than Texstar from PCLinuxOnline (best known for his RPM work for the same distro). The new distro is primarily a Live CD, but can also be installed to the hard drive. It is still in preview release, but at 306 hits per day, it's already #8 on the DistroWatch charts. This review is the first of its kind to surface and it is looking very promising." Update: 12/30 03:18 GMT by T : A semi-anonymous reader writes "For those who dont have a high speed connection, PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 is available from OSDisc.com for a few bucks." Probably soon it will be at cheapbytes, too.

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  1. Mandrake is the best! Always will be! by RouterSlayer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've always liked Mandrake better than any, well, since Slackware went to v7. up to v4 slackware was best, after that... ugh.

    Mandrake has ALWAYS had the best hardware detection, especially for notebooks! my god it's easy to setup, and use too! and ALL the tools are there!

    what the hell is yer problem?!?
    It's got apt-get too yknow! and rpm! and mandrake package management... and everything.

    sheesh.

    BTW KDE kicks Gnome's ass all over the place. the new one, KDE v3.2, omg it's hot!

    so stop spouting BS about Mandrake, it's the only stable, well-supported, fully open-source distro left. RedCrap is gone (always has been CRAP!) and SUSE is now going to be gone (thanks Novell). What else? Slackware which isn't so great any more?

    Or debian? bah! debian sucks rocks, always has. The old Slackware could kick its butt into next week!

    There's a Mandrake LIVE (boot from CD) version too out now, I think it's called Mandrake-Move. It's very cool!

    So get off yer holier than thou bullshit. and btw - BSD Sucks! nice stable platform, LOUSY hardware support, write me when it gets out of the freaking darkages! Sun 2.4 left that kind of disk partition management in the dust eons ago!

    it's (almost) 2004 people, this aint the freaking 70s!

    And BTW I still prefer VMS (command-line!) v5.2 all the way baby, no gui's for me. and please! no bullshit about NT being VMS, it ain't, so kiss my ass.. ;)