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Anybody tried this yet?

I've just loaded it up, early days yet but using it atm to browse and post here using Firefox.

My favourite distro, previously, had been Suse 10.2 but I think I may be a convert to this one.

A single CD ISO download, took me 45 minutes to download.

Has everything you need to get started plus there are literally hundreds of downloadable add-ons.

Has the Gimp; Kaffeine; Open Office as standard, for instance :)

But best of all it recognised all my hardware and plays audio tracks and DVD movies straight out of the box - absolutely brilliant.

I'm no great shakes at Linux - text commands confuse me - but this, so far, to me, seems the most simple distro I've ever used, it really is a breeze to use it.

And the ISO burns you a Live CD as well, so you can try it before you install.

Well, so far, so good, quite impressed, tomorrow, when I'm sober, lol ;) I will try some more stuff, in particular I will attempt to install UT2004 and see how it plays. I did manage to install UT2004 on a previous installation of Suse 10.1 but it was, frankly, hard work.

Anyways, if you're curious, give PCLinuxOS2007 a try, you could do worse.
 
You've got me interested Flops, especially because of the live CD part (I often use those) :D Link for anyone else : http://www.pclinuxos.com/

Does is have one of those software package managers where you can browse bits of software to install in one place and do one click downloading? I saw someone using something like that a while back and it looked like a good idea.
 
To tell the truth Ian I haven't messed about with it much yet but I do know it has something named 'Synaptic' which I believe is a file manager. It may feature auto-update, I don't know yet.

Suse features an auto-updater - YAST, that's probably what you saw or heard about.

When I've tinkered further I'll post again and let you know.

Or try the Live Install yourself ;)
 
These links might help you out with Synaptic Software manager .

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/QuickStartSynaptic

http://docs.mypclinuxos.com/Synaptic_Package_Manager

http://docs.mypclinuxos.com/Donation

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floppybootstomp said:
Suse features an auto-updater - YAST, that's probably what you saw or heard about.

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Or try the Live Install yourself ;)
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That could be it! I'll give the live install a go next week, as my current Knoppix CD is getting a bit long in the tooth.
 
Anybody got a spare blank CDR, I seem to have run out ... :wall:


I wonder if a CDRW will do ... downloaded, need a disk. :D



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Well, I'm in & loaded ... however, I have no taskbar.
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I used the existing hard drive partitions from Suse, so I should have my Home folder intact ... Firefox had my login details already to click ok & GKillM is running ... but that is as far as I can get at the moment.

Working on it ... must fix the bloody monitor, again, 60Hz really does hurt my eyes. :rolleyes:
 
PCLinuxOS seems to be gaining alot of popularity lately (http://distrowatch.com), I for one have gotten tired of switching from distro to distro, I need more stabillity in my life! LOL, anyway, I may try PCLinuxOS in the future on one of the pc's at the shop, but for home, Ubuntu is just fine for me (especially after I downloaded everything I needed for DVD playback!)
 
You can buy it on e-bay with a pretty logo lightscribed on the CD and an attractive cover for the case
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