On 01/22/2011 09:47 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Parshwa Murdia
wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Richard Creighton
wrote: PCLinusOS First, take a look at http://pclosmag.com/ I have started the torrent download of the file
pclinuxos-kde-2010.12.iso.torrent
from the page:
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/doc/191/torrents
but can you comment on the stability of this PCLOS?
I have been using PCLOS since last July or so. I have it on a desktop and a laptop. I'm not sure what you mean by "stability" but it is as stable as most any Linux, as far as not hanging or crashing, and definitely more stable in that sense than Windows 7, which I also have and use, on occasion. (I just had to get rid of the DoubleClick virus on Win 7, which made the machine extremely slow when it would work at all.) And like all Linuxes, not everything you'd like to have is available: WordPerfect, for example, is a better word processor (IMHO) than Word or OO, but you can't get it on Linux anymore, and the old version won't install. There are some engineering routines that you can't get on Linux. But that is not a function of PCLOS. PCLOS is a KDE distro, so in theory, at least, anything that you can get for Suse or Fedora should be available for PCLOS. In practice, it may take some digging. I think the Synaptic package manager is simpler to deal with than YAST--Suse's pm. (Note: I haven't seen YAST in over a year, so it may have been improved.) With a few exceptions, I use PCLOS all the time, instead of Windows or other Linux distros that I have available--Debian, Ubuntu, MINT, and Zorin. If I had to pick a different one, it would most likely be MINT. My 2¢--doug Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org