On 2011-01-20 Doug offered the following:
On 01/20/2011 06:07 PM, Richard Creighton wrote:
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Please spell the following correctly: PCLinuxOS--notice the "x".
PCLinusOS
Old keyboard, old operator, Parkinsons disease and you're right, I missed the X <frown> But I'm glad we agree, PCLinuXOS is a very good distro :)
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Richard
I agree with Richard completely. I use the KDE version myself. It is the _best implementation of KDE I've seen. Some of the others--including OpenSuse's and Kubuntu's--make me puke! And unlike some versions of Linux, the developers have _not_ gone out of their way to make it look like something other than Windows. The interfaces are pretty familiar. After all, these interfaces have been developed over a 30 year time period, from Xerox's original GUI. Some of the latest implementations--including, AFAIC, Win 7's-- don't work as well. Some are far worse (IMHO) than Win 7.
PCLos is what they call a "rolling distribution" by which they mean you can keep it up to date just by using the upgrade path in the Synaptic package manager; it doesn't just suddenly change, like Ubuntu, for example. I take this to be a definite advantage.
If I may make one comment: find out how to modify the sudo file to include yourself. PCLos would prefer that you don't, but I think they're absolutely wrong in this.
One other comment: I wish they had a mailing list, but they don't--they say they do, but the last posts were over a year ago. They use a forum format instead. The answers on the forum are pretty quick, but to have to go there is a PITA.
Welcome to the Linux world.
--doug
I have to agree with the comment you made regarding the forum vs mailing list so I will add that *this* mailing list is *still* very valuable, even to those using PCLinuxOS or other Distros because problems in those distros are *often* not unique to the distro, but are common being bugs or problems in the support programs like KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice or other programs that *run* under Linux which is common to almost all distros, being different mostly in only kernal version/switches/options, if anything at all. If PCLinuxOS had a true mailing list in addition to or instead of a forum format, it may well be perfect <grin> Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org