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From: Mark Warner on 6 Mar 2010 18:11

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/

Official announcement is imminent.

It's a Beta, folks. Use at your own risk. Report bugs back to the
Developers.

--
Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Dave on 6 Mar 2010 23:00
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:11:32 -0500, Mark Warner wrote:

> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
> http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>
> Official announcement is imminent.
>
> It's a Beta, folks. Use at your own risk. Report bugs back to the
> Developers.

I took a look at it and can't believe they made the PCC configuration
tool even better.It looks like they combined Kcontrol from KDE 3 with the
old PCC tool.One stop for all the settings.Windows users could only dream
of such a thing.
ps.I got it from the Ibiblio site,much faster,the GATech mirror had a bad
ISO,only 560 mb.

Dave



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From: Mark Warner on 6 Mar 2010 23:17
Dave wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:11:32 -0500, Mark Warner wrote:
>
>> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>> http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>>
>> Official announcement is imminent.
>>
>> It's a Beta, folks. Use at your own risk. Report bugs back to the
>> Developers.
>
> I took a look at it and can't believe they made the PCC configuration
> tool even better.It looks like they combined Kcontrol from KDE 3 with the
> old PCC tool.One stop for all the settings.Windows users could only dream
> of such a thing.

From Texstar's original post:


Features:
PCLinuxOS-2010.beta1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel utilizing the BFS
scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 and up computers. This
kernel supports up to 4 gigs of memory. A PAE kernel is available from
the Synaptic Package Manager providing up to 64 gig of memory suppport.
In addition ext4 support is also available.

A nicely customized KDE 4.4.1 SC desktop that is both beautiful and very
fast with the latest KDE applications. A unified KDE/GTK2 theme included
to provide a consistent look and feel between KDE and GTK2 applications.
Firefox also uses KDE dialogs.

Reworked menu system with less subcategories to make it easy and fast to
find your applications.

mylivecd iso creation software. A major rewrite featuring intelligent
hardware detection of cd device drivers. No more ide/sata probe options
required. In addition the LiveCD now boots 50% faster than the previous
PCLinuxOS release. CD should boot from most ide, sata and usb cdrom drives.

Plymouth bootsplash available on installed system for cool graphic
effects. Additional themes available from the software repository.

Speedboot technology to get you to your desktop faster than ever.

3D desktop support via Compiz and Nvidia/ATI fglrx drivers on the LiveCD.

Full multimedia support provided by Macromedia flash and various open
source drivers. DVD playback software available from our non-free
repository. CD/DVD burning software included on LiveCD.

Printer support provided by the latest printer and gutenprint drivers
included on LiveCD.

Wireless support provided by the latest kernel and ndiswrapper drivers.
Additional firmware included on LiveCD.

Bluetooth support included on the LiveCD.

Addlocale makes it easy to convert your installed system to the language
of your choice. Over 60 languages available!

GetOpenOffice allows you to install Open Office in the language of your
choice. Over 100 languages available!

A new unified KDE/Admin control center giving you access to your desktop
configuration and administrative tools.

Repository speed test - to help you find the fastest mirror to get
additional software from the Synaptic Package Manager.

Download link to be posted shortly. Please see the known issues in this
section before reporting bugs.

Special thanks to Pinoc and rstob911 for providing needed hardware to
make this beta release possible. Thank you so much! Also thanks to the
packagers/developers/admins who keep things running for this wonderful
community.


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Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Shadow on 7 Mar 2010 06:28
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:11:32 -0500, Mark Warner
<markwarner1954.inhibitions(a)att.net> wrote:

>
>http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>
>Official announcement is imminent.
>
>It's a Beta, folks. Use at your own risk. Report bugs back to the
>Developers.
It used to be my favorite dist, but after all the fights and
the split-up it was +- abandoned, and I switched to ubuntu. The main
advantage (to me at least) was that you could install a very minimal
image and then download exactly what you needed with the package
manager. Make it exactly the way you want it.
I'm stuck with ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, because it's the
last version to support SIS 671/672 video drivers. Any idea if
PCLinuxOS will have support for this chipset ? I find ubuntu too
intrusive....
[]'s
From: Mark Warner on 7 Mar 2010 12:13
Shadow wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>>
>> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>> http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
>>
>> Official announcement is imminent.
>>
>> It's a Beta, folks. Use at your own risk. Report bugs back to the
>> Developers.
>
> It used to be my favorite dist, but after all the fights and
> the split-up it was +- abandoned, and I switched to ubuntu. The main
> advantage (to me at least) was that you could install a very minimal
> image and then download exactly what you needed with the package
> manager. Make it exactly the way you want it.
> I'm stuck with ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, because it's the
> last version to support SIS 671/672 video drivers. Any idea if
> PCLinuxOS will have support for this chipset ? I find ubuntu too
> intrusive....

Can't say. How do you know that v10.04 won't support your graphics? Once
it's in the kernel, it shouldn't go away, unless there's some decision
made upstream by the Debian purists. Even then, many distros will put
support back in. The Maestro sound on my antique laptop was once such
example -- it had been pulled from Lenny for "purity" reasons, but
Warren put it back during the runup to MEPIS 8 once I told him about it.

Personally, I prefer KDE to Gnome, but have never cared for Kubuntu, so
I gravitated toward other Debian-based KDE-centric distros and settled
on MEPIS. However, PCLinuxOS has always been (IMO) a worthy second,
despite it's rpm base. (Using apt/Synaptic makes a big difference.)

KDE 4 is a big transition, too. I'm not nearly as comfortable with it as
I am with KDE 3, but that's to be expected. The new PCLinuxOS uses KDE
4, as does the soon-to-be-released MEPIS 8.5. I'll be beta testing and
experimenting with both, but will be sticking the MEPIS 8 and KDE 3.5.10
for the foreseeable future.

--
Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying
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