PCLinuxOS 2K4: Mandrake Meets The Live CD 182
NoahsLinuxArk2K3 writes "For those of you who may not be familiar with PCLinuxOS, it's a Linux distro derived from Mandrake Linux 9.2, developed by none other than Texstar from PCLinuxOnline (best known for his RPM work for the same distro). The new distro is primarily a Live CD, but can also be installed to the hard drive. It is still in preview release, but at 306 hits per day, it's already #8 on the DistroWatch charts. This review is the first of its kind to surface and it is looking very promising." Update: 12/30 03:18 GMT by T :
A semi-anonymous reader writes "For those who dont have a high speed connection, PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 is available from OSDisc.com for a few bucks." Probably soon it will be at cheapbytes, too.
LiveCD installers (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:God dammit! (Score:1, Interesting)
it's the holidays, when those lamers have nothing to do but spam
I wonder if CmdrTaco can implement some filter for ASCII art, or goatse links, both shouldn't be that hard at all, and in both cases, the post's score is -1 automatically.
Re:Mandrake is great anyway, live CD is even bette (Score:4, Interesting)
Isn't it about time for a Live-DVD? (Score:4, Interesting)
But in the meantime, anybody got a bit torrent for PCLinuxOS up?
-Rick
Re:God dammit! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Isn't it about time for a Live-DVD? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Isn't it about time for a Live-DVD? (Score:2, Interesting)
I agree, and what I'd really LOVE to see is packet writing enabled, so those with DVD-RW burners could have their home directories and system settings stored on the DVD between uses.
Got this yesterday... (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm a Mandrake user, and regularly use Knoppix to access my email (in fact, I'm using it right now since I'd forgotten my Slashdot password).
I'd taken a look at MandrakeMove, and was very unimpressed - it's basically stripped of anything useful except for a few office tools, and doesn't come with enough codecs to handle multimedia in a useful manner. In contrast, I've already burned several copies of PCLinuxOS for my coworkers - it's quite good.
Knoppix still seems to have better hardware detection. For example, on my home machine PCLinuxOS didn't seem to properly initialize the sound card, or find my second CD ROM - both of which Knoppix does properly. And it doesn't seem to have as many developer tools, although I didn't get a chance to fully explore it. For a "normal" user, the selection seems complete, though.
I also didn't see any way of setting up a permanent data store (like Knoppix's Persistant Home Directory). But this is a preview release, and I may have simply missed it.
PCLinuxOS is basically everything that MandrakeMove should have been, but wasn't. Where MandrakeMove feels like crippleware, PCLinuxOS feels like a full version of Mandrake on CD - with all the eyecandy. The look and feel is awesome. I'm looking forward to the full release.
Very Impressed (Score:2, Interesting)
You can tell that the creators of this distro have put a lot of work into the user interface. Just about everything is configurable through the configuration tools, allowing 'users' to fully configure their system without having to understand where the operating system keeps it's configuration files.
This distro looks like a real Windows beater on a home desktop system, and my wifes laptop will almost certainly be running this distro in the very near future.