I installed the latest PCLinuxOS 0.93a Bigdaddy (or full Monty) and I was
pleasantly surprised,

Better than ubuntu, suse, mandriva and all the other distros {I am talking
about desktop use not server}(and yes I have tried 90% of whats out there
and 100% of the major distros).

Everything just worked... and it was beautiful, even windows media played
from out of the box with
an included player.

Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked (without
geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. PClinuxOS is
here......!

http://www.pclinuxos.com/



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humphry schreef:
parameters, still not working.
Also tried a lot of distro's, and until now only mandriva worked fine
(so wondering why installation of pclinuxOS don't work).

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humphry wrote:
Yes, it is very nice. As you said, multimedia "just works". I can't
testify it to it personally, but reports are that this distro has hands
down the best wireless support out there, making it ideal for laptops.

I normally prefer Debian-based distros, but I make a big exception in
this case. Highly recommended.

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Try the new Freespire. It's the freeware version of Linspire. I
put it on one of my computers, and it is very easy to use. The
transition from Windows to Freespire is absolutely painless, as
far as the gui is concerned.

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Gosh it works like a real OS! Whoope-do!

Just spend the 90 bucks to buy WinXP and be done with it.

It works too! :-)

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Bill Turner wrote:
Why spend the $90(?) when you can get a "real OS" for free?

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On 26 Aug 2006, Mark Warner wrote

A sort of by-the-by story.

I tried a suse distro, then ubuntu with all the noise when it came
out. Was impressed with ubuntu, and played around/explored it a
bit. I changed the default boot to Windows (work reasons), but the
dual-boot thing worked fine. At first.

An update for ubuntu came through, which I downloaded; rebooted;
and found it had wiped Windows from the boot loader. Not just
shuffled it down the list or de-defaulted it -- *wiped* it. I had
to find out how to restore the Windows boot (which of course wiped
ubuntu off the boot sequence.)

It was not only annying, but I lost a few hours' work on the work
partition running Windows -- this ain't just a plaything -- while I
worked out how to get back to my files and workaday programs.

Once bitten and all that; I'm now very wary of dual-booting of
linux distros. If I decide to give linux another go, it'll have to
be on a separate machine.

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HVS wrote:
Unfortunate. Can't say how that might have happened. <shrug>

That being said, if I understand the situation correctly, the fix would
have taken about 90 seconds worth of very simple editing of the
/boot/grub/menu.lst file. Of course, you would have to know how, or at
least know where to ask.

I dove into Linux about a year ago, and am far from a "guru", but I've
learned enough to know how to get through most of my difficulties. It
took me a long time to get really good at making Windows do my bidding
(to the extent allowed); for me, the learning curve in Linux has been
*less* steep than it was with Windows.

I currently have four Linux distros on this machine in addition to W2K
and a big FAT32 partition I use for backups and shared files. I'm a
serial installer -- I'm all the time wiping out one partition or another
and loading up another operating system, always setting it up in my
current GrUB bootloader. Never once have I had either an install or an
update touch GrUB, except for a couple of occasions when the installer
overwrote it by default with its own version due to my blindly clicking
the Okay button. Even in those cases, my W2K partition has always
remained bootable, and restoring my preferred version of GrUB was a
simple exercise.

JME. YMMV.

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Mark Warner wrote:
Just downloaded and did a (very) quick test drive on the PClinuxOS 0.93a
Live, and was, at least initially, rather impressed. A little slow, but
that's probably cuz it's running from CD. And none of these live distros
I've tried so far have been able to recognize my ol' HP Deskjet 950C . .
.. is that par for the course?

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:20:45 +0300, "humphry" <humphry@i.com> wrote:

I tried this and it installed easily without hitches. However, the
machine I installed it on has a LinkSys wireless router adapter
card. The wireless network wizard (whatever it's called) smply
throws up its hands and complains that no wireless device can
be found. I knew it wouldn't work, but I tried the Windows
driver installation procedure and installer anyway. Nothing
happens when I click on Setup. It doesn't even inform me
that I'm stupid for even trying

Does anyone know the scoop about a situation like this?
Maybe LinkSys has a Linux installer for its adapter cards?
Or what?

Art
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Daze N. Knights wrote:
If you've got a lot of RAM (1024MB) you can chose to run it in ramdisk
at the initial boot screen. Runs like a scared rabbit that way.

I've never expected a live cd to detect and set up a printer
automagically. Did you run the printer setup wizard? KDE is set up to
work with an unbelievable number of printers; I doubt that yours isn't
one of them.

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Art wrote:
Check the PCLinuxOS forums and documentation. Wireless networking in
Linux is still sometimes a challenge, owing to the manufacturers not
providing open source drivers. That being said, PCLOS is reputed to be
the best when it comes to this, and your particular hardware can be made
to work in most cases. Be prepared to use the command line a little bit.
It's just part of it.

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Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote in
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a Slackware distribution on CD), and have never had a problem with any
update doing anything to a Windows partition.

Hard to say what happen previously. It sounds like just the entries to
the Windows partition got deleted from the Grub boot file, can't think
what it is called at the moment.

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Al Smith wrote:
Where did you get it from Al, the main link has been "Coming Soon" for
a long while.
http://www.freespire.com/

Thanks, John.

jmatt@webace.com.au wrote:
http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Download_Freespire

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:20:45 +0300, "humphry" <humphry@i.com> wrote:

< snip >

Screen shots might be nice. Maybe such things aren't possible with
PClinux ?

Frank Hahn wrote:
Agreed. I suspect there was an update to GrUB that somehow glitched and
overwrote the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

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John Fitzsimons wrote:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0

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Can you position the task bar on the right hand side of the screen?

I prefer to have it on the right hand size as it allows more room for
browsing as usually web sites are designed for 1024 or 800 pixel width
while most flat screens are 1280 across.



humphry wrote:

osdir has screenshots of linux and other os

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/sl...se=713&slide=5

on the right you have thumbnails.. click to see the enlarged view

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