The PCLOS forums, especially the Software Announcements forum, are a very important news source. It all just worked, and worked better than Windows 2000 for anything to do with the Internet. I think it's partially the nature of the beast. BTW, Arch also breaks the rolling release now and then. You'll never convince me to use another distro. I pull my hair out on other distros to accomplish the same tasks. Little bits here and there are just well though out and simple. However, at every turn, some serious though has went into this distro that simply makes sense. They're a very small development team, and things are just bonkers when they're working on a big release like PCLinuxOS 64 bit. It's true that I get something breaking on a rare occasion. PCLinuxOS takes all that away and lets me, mostly, just do what I want instead of tinker. I'm so tired of reading about how easy peasy Ubuntu is, but to me it just restricts the user during the installation process to try and push itself as the dominant distro on your drive, and the commandline BS is just unnecessary, to me. A little tweaking and I'm off and running as a USER and not having to type "sudo blah blah blah" in a terminal to do something. Unlike many distros, I don't fight with permissions problems with files to get Amarok to see my music volume and setup the library, it has simple root service menus to enable you to do whatever you need to get done, and everything is mostly setup from the word go. However, I keep PCLinuxOS as my main distro. I still load all sorts of distros on another partition like openSUSE, Korora, Fedora, Linux Mint, Mageia. I've come and gone from distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse, Mandrake, Red Hat. I've been a user since Red Hat 5.2,and found PCLinuxOS about 2006 with release. See the forums for details.) Reply Delete (There are some special, extra repos that can be enabled. So trying to use multiple repos can confuse synaptic and mess up your system. All repositories are simply mirrors of the primary, but at any given time might be in different stages of being updated. Oh, and one point from the article: with PCLOS, pick ONE, repeat, ONE, repository. I last installed the 2010 release, yet my system is totally up to date, and reports as being the 2013.2 release. (I usually check once a week, but I have gone as much as 6 weeks ata crack, with no serious issues.) As a side effect of this, users don't need to reinstall every 6 months or yearly. Users should check for and install any and all updates at least once a month. One thing to note: PCLOS is a rolling release OS. I still run PCLOS because after a long day of dealing with command-line-only *nix servers, I want a system that "just works". At the time, PCLOS was still in beta (I started with the 0.92 release). I switched to PCLOS about 7 years ago because an update for Mandriva (which I was running until then) borked my system. I installed the live KDE version to a USB drive using UNetbootin and rebooted the computer. (The same machine that I had previously installed openSUSE and Debian). The machine I chose to install PCLinuxOS on is the Samsung R20. You can download PCLinuxOS from this link. Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows Vista. Installation Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows XP. PCLinuxOS is aimed at a similar audience to Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin but unlike those operating systems PCLinuxOS is not based on Debian. This week I am looking at one of the more user friendly operating systems and one a Windows user looking to move to Linux for the first time.might want to try. Last week I tackled Debian and before that I tackled openSUSE. In the past couple of weeks I have taken a look at two of the more popular Linux operating systems.
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