ocean-addict
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wat would be the bare minimum / partition size for a pclinuxos? i have a 5 gig partition and a 1 gig for /swap, should that be ok?
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ocean-addict
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well, im used to suse, but suse was a bit too big too download, so which would i take more easily to? pclinuxos or ubuntu?
Skeptik
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What are the features of PCLinuxOS??
The most popular distros are the ones on the toasters (free access points). There is one at UCT and another in Canal Walk.
The most popular distros are the ones on the toasters (free access points). There is one at UCT and another in Canal Walk.
ubuntu has being designed from the ground up to be a very user friendly version of Ubuntu, and use "It just works (tm)" or something like that technologies. My vote would be Ubuntu.
ocean-addict
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wats the difference between ubuntu and kubuntu?
ubuntu uses gnome as its desktop (boring) but is less resource hungry
kubuntu uses KDE as its desktop (pretty) but it likes more resources (but still less than windows).
But underneath the hood theyre the same thing.
kubuntu uses KDE as its desktop (pretty) but it likes more resources (but still less than windows).
But underneath the hood theyre the same thing.
chiskop
Executive Member
I see pclinuxos uses APT and synaptic, which are the best things anyway about ubuntu/kubuntu (apart from ubuntuforums.org). Also mentions an interesting script makelivecd, allows you to create a live cd version of your set up at any time - sounds cool. Looks like it uses KDE.
ocean-addict, the choice is obviously yours but with ubuntu or kubuntu you'll be able to find help much more easily.
ocean-addict, the choice is obviously yours but with ubuntu or kubuntu you'll be able to find help much more easily.
ocean-addict
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i want to try pclinuxos first, and then ubuntu as well later, am i going to have dual boot (with windows) or other problems if i install ubuntu over pclinuxos?
FWIW, PCLinuxOS has overtaken Ubuntu on distrowatch as the most popular Linux download recently. The main reason, as I understand, is the ease with which a Windoze user can adapt to using it. This sounds as if they've improved on the ease-of-use which Ubuntu has been famous for.
I'd be interested to hear what one of our user's experience is of it, since I'm already very very impressed with how comfortable Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 are to use.
I'd be interested to hear what one of our user's experience is of it, since I'm already very very impressed with how comfortable Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 are to use.
Re: comment on Distro: PCLinuxOs rules!
It's a long post, but defo worth the read.
I have been experimenting with several distros for the past five years. Name them. Mandrake, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, enlightment, Knoppix, E Live, Dynebolic etc. etc. I tried many different versions and spent a lot of money on bandwidth for all those downloads, even from third world countries like Uganda on 128k connections. Recently I even bought Linspire, hoping that it would come to my rescue but to no avail. I really hate M$ for the reasons that we all know, but I could never get a distro that just works out of the box to replace my XP. I always had to do tweaking here and there and not all hardware was supported or the kernel had to be updates or whatever. Even on different systems it just was not plug and play enough for me to make a serious migration.
As a full time audio visual engineer, I also run a graphic, web and media company on the sideline. There are some mission critical stuff and I can not afford to mess up for the sake of running Linux. Well, read on.
Every month I download one or two distros, just to make sure I make proper use of my cap, otherwise it goes wasted. Sometime I downloaded PCLinuxOS 2007 and forgot about the ISO on my Toshiba laptop with XP. The drive got full and I found the iso files as I was searching for files over 500mb. I burned it to CD anyway and booted it up.
All I can say is WOW! (I have a Toshiba Sat 105 with 2G RAM and intel GFX chipset + wifi.) Booted the live CD, and all my hardware was recognized. Even my wifi worked out of the box and I did not even have to go and plug into the router, because it just worked. To cut a long story short, I have bought an external casing and extra SATA drive, and put the new drive in the laptop and the XP NTFS drive in the USB casing just to be sure I don't mess my windows install up. Even though I was hooked on Linux long ago, I still needed to make sure I can just pop in my windowz HDD if anything goes wrong.
I have been using software like Open Office, Gimp, Blender, Inkscape, Thunderbird, firefox, Filezilla and other open source software for a long time on XP and was so glad to see most of them already installed. To transfer all my settings, bookmarks and
20 email accounts was as easy as starting profilemanager up in firefox and thunderbird. I use some commercial apps, Swich Max, which is a Flash animation package and also Pinnacle DV Studio to do video editing. I installed Swishmax on wine today, without any hassles. NONE! It just works! Package management is very straight forward and I even created my own live CD of my current configuration, in case I mess anything up. Pinnacle studio should be more of a challenge, but I am sure it is possible to make it work under Wine.
Did I mention Skype is working, MSN (kopete) and that I just plugged my bluetooth dongle in and connected with my E 250 phone in a few seconds? The one thing that still irritates me, and that is about the only thing is the apperent lack of the ability to type ascii characters with combinations like alt-136 for instance. I know it can be done, but I just did not take the time to figure it out yet. Oh. and read NTFS support is there out of the box, but you need to install ntfs-3g from package manager to get read/write access. It takes about 60secs to download and install and two clicks to unmout and mount the drive in Konqueror.
This is the best Distro I have seen up to date. The actual install took me about 10 minutes after the live CD was copied to RAM. I can run my business of a product like this, and that is exactly what I am doing right now. PCLinuxOS is truly a window$ replacement. Did I say it is free? virus free, spyware free, faster, nicer looking... you catch my drift. I will rather donate money to the team of PCLinuxOS than ever give money to M$ again for any software. There's only one way to find out if you will like it. Burn the ISO and boot up!
Cheers
It's a long post, but defo worth the read.
I have been experimenting with several distros for the past five years. Name them. Mandrake, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, enlightment, Knoppix, E Live, Dynebolic etc. etc. I tried many different versions and spent a lot of money on bandwidth for all those downloads, even from third world countries like Uganda on 128k connections. Recently I even bought Linspire, hoping that it would come to my rescue but to no avail. I really hate M$ for the reasons that we all know, but I could never get a distro that just works out of the box to replace my XP. I always had to do tweaking here and there and not all hardware was supported or the kernel had to be updates or whatever. Even on different systems it just was not plug and play enough for me to make a serious migration.
As a full time audio visual engineer, I also run a graphic, web and media company on the sideline. There are some mission critical stuff and I can not afford to mess up for the sake of running Linux. Well, read on.
Every month I download one or two distros, just to make sure I make proper use of my cap, otherwise it goes wasted. Sometime I downloaded PCLinuxOS 2007 and forgot about the ISO on my Toshiba laptop with XP. The drive got full and I found the iso files as I was searching for files over 500mb. I burned it to CD anyway and booted it up.
All I can say is WOW! (I have a Toshiba Sat 105 with 2G RAM and intel GFX chipset + wifi.) Booted the live CD, and all my hardware was recognized. Even my wifi worked out of the box and I did not even have to go and plug into the router, because it just worked. To cut a long story short, I have bought an external casing and extra SATA drive, and put the new drive in the laptop and the XP NTFS drive in the USB casing just to be sure I don't mess my windows install up. Even though I was hooked on Linux long ago, I still needed to make sure I can just pop in my windowz HDD if anything goes wrong.
I have been using software like Open Office, Gimp, Blender, Inkscape, Thunderbird, firefox, Filezilla and other open source software for a long time on XP and was so glad to see most of them already installed. To transfer all my settings, bookmarks and
20 email accounts was as easy as starting profilemanager up in firefox and thunderbird. I use some commercial apps, Swich Max, which is a Flash animation package and also Pinnacle DV Studio to do video editing. I installed Swishmax on wine today, without any hassles. NONE! It just works! Package management is very straight forward and I even created my own live CD of my current configuration, in case I mess anything up. Pinnacle studio should be more of a challenge, but I am sure it is possible to make it work under Wine.
Did I mention Skype is working, MSN (kopete) and that I just plugged my bluetooth dongle in and connected with my E 250 phone in a few seconds? The one thing that still irritates me, and that is about the only thing is the apperent lack of the ability to type ascii characters with combinations like alt-136 for instance. I know it can be done, but I just did not take the time to figure it out yet. Oh. and read NTFS support is there out of the box, but you need to install ntfs-3g from package manager to get read/write access. It takes about 60secs to download and install and two clicks to unmout and mount the drive in Konqueror.
This is the best Distro I have seen up to date. The actual install took me about 10 minutes after the live CD was copied to RAM. I can run my business of a product like this, and that is exactly what I am doing right now. PCLinuxOS is truly a window$ replacement. Did I say it is free? virus free, spyware free, faster, nicer looking... you catch my drift. I will rather donate money to the team of PCLinuxOS than ever give money to M$ again for any software. There's only one way to find out if you will like it. Burn the ISO and boot up!
Cheers
Sapphiron
Honorary Master
I second the recommendation of PCLinuxOS.
Ubuntu 7.1 might technically be better, but Kubuntu 7.10 is terrible for a newbie.
For Gnome I would recommend Ubuntu7.10 but for KDE PCLINUXOS is far better.
Ubuntu 7.1 might technically be better, but Kubuntu 7.10 is terrible for a newbie.
For Gnome I would recommend Ubuntu7.10 but for KDE PCLINUXOS is far better.
shadow_man
Executive Member
Thirded although I myself did have some issues with pc linux not correctly recognizing SATA and refusing to find an hdd - had to add the string linux all-generic-ide after that in the live boot option - took me a while to figure this out but am liking it more than kubuntu.
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