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Title: PCLinuxOS . . . the Ubuntu killer?
Post by: iMav on Wed, 26 December 2007, 12:00:22

For those of you that keep an eye on DistroWatch (http://distrowatch.com), you may have noticed a "new" distro knocking Ubuntu off it's throne...PCLinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com).

PCLinuxOS has been around since 2003.  It was originally based on the Mandriva distribution.  Mandriva was the first distro to really focus on easy installation and a great desktop experience out-of-the-box (I remember really despising the distro when it first came out...a bastardization of my, then, beloved Red Hat).  :)

I doubt PCLOS is going to dethrone Ubuntu as MY desktop distro of choice anytime soon...but  it is nice to see some more, polished distros out there.

Title: PCLinuxOS . . . the Ubuntu killer?
Post by: fkeidjn on Sat, 23 February 2008, 21:21:53

I would like to use Ubuntu, but it keeps crashing on me.  What other Linux distributions have you tried and/or recommend?  If nothing, I guess I'll have to continue using "the nasty" (http://www.microsoft.com)

Title: PCLinuxOS . . . the Ubuntu killer?
Post by: bigpook on Tue, 15 April 2008, 20:11:46

Quote from: fkeidjn;3185

I would like to use Ubuntu, but it keeps crashing on me.  What other Linux distributions have you tried and/or recommend?  If nothing, I guess I'll have to continue using "the nasty" (http://www.microsoft.com)

thats funny, I have had great luck with ubuntu but cannot get PCLINUXOS to even install....
if ubuntu keeps bombing out on you then try OpenSuse. I ran that for the longest time and still would be using it, but they made this deal with MS and that totally turned me off to them.

Title: PCLinuxOS . . . the Ubuntu killer?
Post by: iMav on Tue, 15 April 2008, 22:31:14

Ubuntu can't be too hard.  I just went from a box of computer parts to a dual-headed Ubuntu workstation (with full 3d accelerated nVidia graphics) in just over an hour.  :)

Title: PCLinuxOS . . . the Ubuntu killer?
Post by: xsphat on Tue, 15 April 2008, 23:32:38

I stopped playing with Ubuntu because I could NEVER get it to work with my MacBook with an external monitor. Thats why I like Mac so much, I just bought the monitor and an adapter, hooked it all up and it was screen-spanning instantly without a hitch.