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From: humphry on 26 Aug 2006 21:18 osdir has screenshots of linux and other os and pclinuxos too of course http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=713&slide=5 on the right you have thumbnails.. click to see the enlarged view "humphry" <humphry(a)i.com> wrote in message news:44f075bd$0$8812$88260bb3(a)free.teranews.com... >I installed the latest PCLinuxOS 0.93a Bigdaddy (or full Monty) and I was >pleasantly surprised, > > Better than ubuntu, suse, mandriva and all the other distros {I am talking > about desktop use not server}(and yes I have tried 90% of whats out there > and 100% of the major distros). > > Everything just worked... and it was beautiful, even windows media played > from out of the box with > an included player. > > Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked (without > geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. PClinuxOS is > here......! > > http://www.pclinuxos.com/ > > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Mark Warner on 26 Aug 2006 21:39 Snonck wrote: > humphry wrote: >> I installed the latest PCLinuxOS 0.93a Bigdaddy (or full Monty) and I >> was pleasantly surprised, >> >> Better than ubuntu, suse, mandriva and all the other distros {I am >> talking about desktop use not server}(and yes I have tried 90% of >> whats out there and 100% of the major distros). >> >> Everything just worked... and it was beautiful, even windows media >> played from out of the box with >> an included player. >> >> Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked >> (without geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. >> PClinuxOS is here......! >> >> http://www.pclinuxos.com/ > Can you position the task bar on the right hand side of the screen? > > I prefer to have it on the right hand size as it allows more room for > browsing as usually web sites are designed for 1024 or 800 pixel width > while most flat screens are 1280 across. Of course you can. That's the beauty of Linux. You can configure it the way *you* want it. -- Mark Warner SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: humphry on 26 Aug 2006 21:49 of course you can.. that is a feature of kde.... the taskbar is called "panel" in kde linux.. right click on it and you will see the Configure Panel option. Then you will see a window that has some small rectangle buttons in a square formation.. this shows where you want to place the "taskbar". See screenshot http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/2363/snapshot2lp6.jpg You dont have to install this to try it out.. the cd is bootable once you burn it. It is a live cd too... not only installable. "Snonck" <snonck(a)snog.com> wrote in message news:44f0f05d$0$1373$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > Can you position the task bar on the right hand side of the screen? > > I prefer to have it on the right hand size as it allows more room for > browsing as usually web sites are designed for 1024 or 800 pixel width > while most flat screens are 1280 across. > > > > humphry wrote: >> I installed the latest PCLinuxOS 0.93a Bigdaddy (or full Monty) and I was >> pleasantly surprised, >> >> Better than ubuntu, suse, mandriva and all the other distros {I am >> talking about desktop use not server}(and yes I have tried 90% of whats >> out there and 100% of the major distros). >> >> Everything just worked... and it was beautiful, even windows media played >> from out of the box with >> an included player. >> >> Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked (without >> geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. PClinuxOS is >> here......! >> >> http://www.pclinuxos.com/ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Daze N. Knights on 26 Aug 2006 21:53 Mark Warner wrote: > Daze N. Knights wrote: >> Just downloaded and did a (very) quick test drive on the PClinuxOS 0.93a >> Live, and was, at least initially, rather impressed. A little slow, but >> that's probably cuz it's running from CD. And none of these live distros >> I've tried so far have been able to recognize my ol' HP Deskjet 950C . . >> . is that par for the course? > > If you've got a lot of RAM (1024MB) you can chose to run it in ramdisk > at the initial boot screen. Runs like a scared rabbit that way. > > I've never expected a live cd to detect and set up a printer > automagically. Did you run the printer setup wizard? Nope, haven't tried that, yet. Just been checking to see what happens "automagically" :-) in these live distros so far. KDE is set up to > work with an unbelievable number of printers; I doubt that yours isn't > one of them. > KDE? =Knoppix? Yeah, HP DeskJets are not very uncommon printers. -- Daze
From: Mark Warner on 26 Aug 2006 22:23
Daze N. Knights wrote: > > KDE? =Knoppix? No. KDE is the window manager; e.g. the GUI interface and all the basic programs and utilities that come with it. Gnome is the other big name. Knoppix is a live CD packge based on Debian that uses Gnome. The name is a play on the author's name, Klaus Knopper. Are you confused yet? :-) -- Mark Warner PCLinuxOS v.93 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying |