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PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold
nerdyH writes "After nearly two years, the PCLinuxOS project has achieved a major new release, PCLinuxOS 2009. The project is notable for maintaining a Linux hardware compatibility database, publishing a freely downloadable monthly Linux magazine, and selling hardware pre-installed with Linux. It boasts a pretty vibrant community, too, and is used by 3.2 percent of DesktopLinux readers, according to an ongoing reader survey there."
PClinuxOS-KDE ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/texstar/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/pclinuxos-2009.1.iso
PClinux-Gnome http://linuxgator.org/PCLinuxOS/iso/pclos-gnome2009.1.iso
I get full speed from the KDE link. YMMV.
Does it run Antivirus 2009?
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, I'd be richcursive!
Dear Linux,
For the Love of God(For emphasis only)stop fragmenting!
Who presumably like' kde 3.5 *slashes wrists*
In other news today, (and I'm not joking), Bill Gates once again became the world's richest man *shoots self in head just to make sure*
And self-selecting surveys are always accurate...
It could be worse, they could have called it iPCLinuxOSMacXWin/2.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
...said the download was slow and that KDE-3.5.10 was the desktop. I corrected both misstatements in my post. I did not recommend PCLinuxOS. I said I was downloading the Gnome version...to test it out.
If you want to check out PCLinuxOS and want a fast link, my post should be of value.
If you know you won't like it or don't need it, don't download it from my fast link.
Tried it for a while. Got tired of having Amateur Hour on a computer my wife has to use and went back to a rock-solid Ubuntu LTS install.
I'm looking at distrowatch now and PCLinuxOS is 7th place with Ubuntu at 1st, not that I care however I find your comment confusing.
I'll agree with you that there are more polished distributions out there. That's not the point however. The point is that there is choice and that's great. There is no real lock in, it's really easy for you to go with whichever distro you prefer. Also that anyone can enter the market with their own distro with little effort.
I think it's great to see people diving in and having a go. Not everyone will succeed but that's life. I'm not certain but I would hazard a guess that most of the other major distro's had similar beginnings to this and weren't as polished as they are now when they first started.
Ryans Tutorials - A collection of technology tutorials.
This is really just me guessing, but I wonder if the problem with KDE 4.2 being slow on your current machine is an issue of the graphics card as opposed to either processor speed or insufficient memory. At any rate, if you've got hardware that can handle it, KDE 4.2 is very bueatiful, usable desktop.
At some point last year (or the year before?) PCLinuxOS beat Ubuntu out for first place on the distrowatch rankings. I don't know why it happened, I don't remember how long it lasted, and I don't really know why it matters.
Yep, same here. ... Ubuntu 9.04?
Tried F10, PC-BSD 7.0.1, & Mandriva 2009, all with KDE 4.1 and noticed they all had subtle differences but all were hideously slow and squirrelly as hell. KDE4.2 is being promoted as equal in functionality to 3.5.10 so may be interesting to see when it makes it into a distro
Unfortunately I find Ubuntu is too unstable for my needs so still sticking to Lenny w/ KDE 3.5.10 for the foreseeable future.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
I first tried Gentoo on an AMD K62 with 96 MB RAM. Back then, a usable system took at least a week if there were no compiler errors. Which there were, I never got it working because I gave up after the first week or so.
But now, Moore's law has largely mitigated this nightmare - you can have a working system in a few hours! Of course, the faster systems also obviate a primary need for Gentoo (performance) but...
I'm sticking with Fedora, thanks!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Not true, the richest men in the world are still the Arabian oil sheiks, most notably the Saudi king and royal family. But Forbes does not count these people as "men", claiming that they are states. The forbes "rich list" is BS as they go to extreme lengths to discount anyone who isn't from the US (the Queen of England cant even make the list as the richest land owner in the UK). If we include the oil sheiks Gates doesn't even make it into the top 10.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I used KDE 4.1 for a while on a computer from 2004 - 2.4 Ghz, 1GB, 128 MB graphics card. It was as smooth as anything - it seemed to run even faster than KDE 3.5. I went back to KDE 3.5 though, because the 4.1 tended to crash. Apart from the crashing, yes, it was a very beautiful, usable desktop (even on old hardware).
I'm a software visionary. I don't code.
This is really just me guessing, but I wonder if the problem with KDE 4.2 being slow on your current machine is an issue of the graphics card as opposed to either processor speed or insufficient memory
KDE 4, the Vista under the desktop environments. SCNR.
I hope this will get better with Qt 4.5. I like most of the KDE apps over their GNOME counterpart (KMail vs. Evolution, KPdf vs. Evince, ...) but they are unusable because of their current "speed". A working desktop search would be nice, too. Nothing I've seen so far comes close to Beagle. What I really don't like about KDE 4 is Plasma, but that's another issue...
KDE 4.2 is in the Ubuntu 8.10 "proposed" repositories, mostly (the packaging for Kate is broken at the moment). Running Ubuntu-proposed is probably a bad idea for anything but a personal or experimental machine, though, as it breaks every now and then. As you don't like unstable distros, it's almost certainly a bad idea for you, but there might be other people around here who want to try it out.
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I think you're modded "troll" only because there's no such thing as "unfunny". If there were a "you-THOUGHT-you-were-funny-but-you-really-really-failed" mod, then I would be begging others to "mod parent up" at this point.
In all fairness, the replies below your post are even worse that your original. Even my own reply here is below my usual standards, and had to therefore be anonymous.
So I guess in all fairness to US... your post was so lame that it make all who came after lame for having followed you.
(the Queen of England cant even make the list as the richest land owner in the UK)
Being pedantic, the Queen is the only land owner in the UK. When you buy a house here you don't buy the land, you buy the "freehold". This isn't just archaic legal mumbo jumbo. It reflects the fact that you don't own the land (the Queen does), just the right to live on it rent free.
Does anyone else think the name PCLinuxOS is dumb? I guess it's the generic terminology crammed into a single word, but it makes me think 'first day in a community college computer class'.
- Everything that you like, sucks.
Either that, or the people who modded me down were Nazis. Which is more likely?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
It looks like kde 4.2 will be in Ubuntu 9.04.
KDE 4.2 is in the current 9.04 alpha releases of Kubuntu. I upgraded my 8.10 installation to the alpha release the other night. A couple of hiccups here and there that I'd guess will be smoothed out over the coming month.
The most annoying thing was that I lost my restricted codecs. I understand full well why Ubuntu can't distribute the codecs in some countries like the US, but I don't understand why the existing codecs vanished. Most of the time it doesn't matter to me because I generally use smplayer/mplayer and build the latter from svn snapshots. I only discovered the codecs were gone when I suddenly couldn't play MP3s in amarok.
The best desktop linux available.
I checked it. It does NOT exist for 64-bit.
Any utility i can buy?
Like Diskeeper?
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
People generally use an OS they feel is better for the purpose they intend to use it for. So an OS has to have a target of users that they want to reach. They need to offer something that will make people see something rich in their OS.
What does PCLinixOS have? Who actually benefits from using PCLinuxOS as opposed to using any top quality Linux OS or even a Windows or a Mac?