PCLinuxOS 2010

[newklear]

http://pclinuxos.com/

Anyone tested the latest PCLOS 2010 ?

I have been using PCLOS 2009 KDE & LXDE for awhile and just switched over to 2010 LXDE and really impressed with the low memory footprint. With a full install, including mySQL and Squid amongst many other applications running I am using just 110MB Ram on bootup.

My installed applications:
http://pastebin.com/fnLbAyke

After Distro-hopping over the last few months I can definately say this is the Distro of choice for me. Only gripe is the lack of dial-up support, but that is easily fixed with installing wvdial or dialer of your choice. Otherwise very happy to see audio and video working right out of the box, no hassles with setting up mic or webcam

PCLOS-2010-LXDE Default:

PCLOS-2010-LXDE Custom:

Share your thoughts..

 

[hawker]

I've heard quite a lot about it over the years but never actually tried it. I might give it a bash at some stage

EDIT: If anything, I'd be willing to give the KDE version a spin

 

[Asha'man X]

I briefly played with the KDE version, and even in Vbox it looks quite nice. However, I was not too impressed with how they labelled the K menu, as they more or less left programs by their default names, i.e. krdp for the Remote Desktop Client and so on. For a technical user who has used Linux before, it won't matter, but for newbies it's likely to cause pain. Otherwise I liked it a lot. However, I can't wait to try the new Mandriva when it's out.

 

[MyWorld]

PCLinuxOS has been my choice for newbies to Linux for a while. It is more stable than Mandriva last time I tested it a couple of years ago and it just works out of the box. Love the simplicity.

 

[concentricpuddle]

PCLinuxOS has been my choice for newbies to Linux for a while. It is more stable than Mandriva last time I tested it a couple of years ago and it just works out of the box. Love the simplicity.

And it uses the apt package management tools instead of the ****ty ones Mandriva's got. It's my newbie recommendation too.

 

[Asha'man X]

Was playing with it some more today inside VBox. For whatever reason, it's able to work better on our Microsoft Network than Ubuntu 10.04 does. Ubuntu can't seem to get DNS working properly so it can ping computers inside the network, but PCLOS works without a hitch. I'm going to install it tomorrow, then test it out more fully. It really is a nice little distro.

 

[newklear]

That's good to hear Asha'man X

I was having DNS problems with Win7 both on the LAN and WAN (was either just the LAN or WAN that worked by themselves not together), have totally scrapped it now and am running PCLOS 2010 KDE4 with no quibbles, I have every PC at home shared, connected and running at full steam with variations of PCLOS.

A good tweak is to use nscd (name service cache daemon)

apt-get install nscd
chkconfig nscd on
service nscd start

 

[Asha'man X]

PCLOS acts weird in my Vbox for some reason. After installing off the LiveCD, it boots first time, you configure and use it. The next time you restart it, it gets past the boot prompt and just sits there. Seems to be quite a bit of network activity, but nothing is happening. I force a reset, start in Safe Mode and then jump up to init 5 and it works great. Either it's my pc, something in Vbox or PCLOS.

Otherwise, it's a good distro, still worth it.

 

[wezhira]

pclinuxos totally rocks i am downloading it now

 

[Asha'man X]

I burnt a copy of this yesterday, and actually booted my PC off it. I must say, it runs much better like that than in a VM. It picked up all my hardware, including my X-fi, I connected with my wireless connection and full on KWin 3D effects were working with a few mouse clicks. While I can't compare it to Compiz because I've almost never used Compiz, it seems to me that the effects in KWin run very well and stable. While perhaps not having the same amount of effects as Compiz, the included ones are more "sane" and useful. My 2 NTFS hard drives were picked up without hassle and easily mounted.

Honestly, this is how and what Linux should always be like. I know a lot of people object to closed code, but having that code in the system just makes it that much more useful out the box. PCLOS and Mandriva would be the distributions I would install onto my pc if I ever wanted to have Linux on it.

 

[newklear]

I don't make use of Compiz either and am very happy with the default look & feel, I know some PCLOS users are keen to add Compiz and metamorph for that extra funk. My favourite way of installing PCLOS is installing the full KDE4 ISO and installing the task-lxde desktop on top of that.

The Kernel developer of PCLOS really made my day recently, it's always been a schlep to add the NeoConnect Lite Modem (Huawei ETS 2258) to any Linux distro and he has now written in support for the modem in the latest Kernel update.
Now it's just a matter of installing PCLOS and dialing up immediately as is, so thanks Texstar! you absoloutely sold me hook line and sinker with that. Texstar is also very active on the PCLOS forum, also really nice to see the developers interacting with user bugs or issues.

I prefer installing off of USB now as it takes me roughly 3 minutes to install a fresh PCLOS system