Preview: I take the PCLinuxOS plunge

By Steven Rosenberg on February 21, 2008 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

I don't know what took me so long. After unseating Ubuntu from the No. 1 spot on Distrowatch months ago, PCLinuxOS has shown no signs of folding in the face of all things Feisty and Gutsy.

Even my co-workers (OK, co-worker, in this case the Los Angeles Daily News' City Hall reporter Rick Orlov) are telling me how great PCLinuxOS is. Even Scott Ruecker, master of LXer, has sung its praises.

But I've been running Debian, Ubuntu, Puppy, Damn Small Linux, Slackware, Knoppix ... everything but PCLinuxOS. OK, I tried it on my converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client, but it wouldn't boot.

But today I took the PCLinuxOS 2007 CD, burned CDs of the project's GNOME and MiniMe images and started feeding them into the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450).

I'll go into detail with a full review in the days ahead.

1 Comments

mellowfury said:

The minime edition of PCLOS is
awesome for remastering your
own customized version and it is super-easy as well.Their
repos have almost 8000 pack-
ages and even though it's rpm
based dependency problems are
all resolved by Synaptic.There
is no easier distro to use in
my opinion-Texstar really hit
the mark.

February 22, 2008 5:58 PM

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