I remember last summer, like every year I went on vacation to Italy, at that time I still used Archlinux And since there is no Internet in my family's house, I had to buy a 3g Usb key. I remember trying to connect in Arch anyway, but always the same result, in the end it didn't connect to the Vodafone network.
Then I remembered a distro that came with the tools ready, and since I had the disk with me, I installed it. The result was that I was able to connect automatically from the network center of PC Linux OS. When I came back from vacation I erased pc linux Again, at that time I was still interested in kissing, but in the end that time passed, I started using Windows 7 by theme of the institute (access, excel and power point) and then I finished installing OS X.
I finally went back to Linux, I installed the LTS of ubuntu 12.04 and after 4 days of using it, a malicious update left me unable to hear the sound, except for the headphones and the bug that I reported is still open ...
Then i tried Debian and although it is not bad, it is not for me, the installation of the proprietary drivers of AMD As always when I use Debian, it was impossible for me, when I restart the pc everything moves slowly, having to worry about leaving the sources, the dock and other things well no longer does for me and then I remembered PC Linux OS.
Linux OS It already has the ati catalyst drivers by default, and incredibly the performance I get is much better than in other distros, also I notice the faster desktop with the bfs kernel.
The problem is that this distro is not suitable for * versioniticos *, still use KDE 4.6.5 but with that we get great stability. Impressed with the graphics performance, but at the same time impressed to see how I finally see a movie with acceleration xvba vaapi, I don't suffer more from tearing, which in Urebellion no matter how much I selected and deselected compiz options, I could not remove it.
With the last libreoffice, VLC 2.0, the control center of Linux OS which is wonderful, its appearance by default too, with apt as the package manager, all kinds of software in the repositories, such as monodevelop, qtcreator, kdevelop and the presence of the bfs kernel, makes this Rolling Release distro a great option for the common user, which shows us that stability and rolling release is possible.
Reading the About PCLinux OS page does it mention that it uses OpenOffice, is it out of date or is it one of the few distros that still includes it?
I answer myself, in the pages of both versions it mentions a LibreOffice installer, LibreOffice Manager, so it was just an outdated page «About PCLinux OS»
When, a little over a year ago, I decided to quit Ubuntu and try other options, this was one of the first distros I used. I really liked its flexibility and speed, although I noticed that KDE was not as worked as in other distros. I can not ignore that it recognized all the hardware of my laptop without problems. the only drawback that occurred to me was at the graphic level: during startup, the screen changed resolution and you had to do the manual change once the system started. outside of that, nothing more. a lot of software available, constant updates, and a lot of stability. one of my favorites!!!
oh and I forgot, it blew my mind to find myself Synaptic, hehe, it was great.
Coming from Mandriva, I used this distro on my Linux partition for a long time and it is excellent. One of the best, fast and stable implementations of KDE that I have seen. I left it for some decisions of its main developer, Texstar, not to update KDE, nor programs like Amarok.
Always faithful to KDE, now I am testing Kubuntu 12.04 and it convinces me less and less. Maybe give Mageia 2 a try, or go back to PCLinuxOS and smoke the quirks of Texstar.
Did you try OpenSUSE? You have the latest KDE (the update to KDE 4.8.4 came to me yesterday), the latest versions of all the applications there and to be, and it has great stability.
I was also a Mandriva and PCLinuxOS user, now I am an OpenSUSE user and the truth is that I am more than happy with it.
Your point of view is interesting and I fully share what you say. Although I never used Pclinux OS I already passed my stage of fighting with the system and installing one thing at a time. I Virtualized Arch, which I never installed on the disk, twice the system crashed for updates in the virtual machine, so I discarded it outright. I am a user and defender of Debian but I must admit that it is not for an end user, its metapackage system is a headache if you want to have relatively new programs.
Like @VaryHeavy I think that OpenSUSE is a great distribution and I dare to say that it is the most stable with a focus on the average user. When I installed it I did it actually with the intention of breaking it I added external repositories (analogous to Ubuntu's ppas ) I even added the kde factory repositories and if the system becomes unstable you can go back to the development repo e.g. a simple zypper dup from the-repo-you-want or visiting Build Service and you have a system with the latest packages. It should be noted that many distros that use KDE, among them Chakra take the kde integration packages from OpenSUSE… .well as always I went on a tangent haha.
what you mention about the openSUSE repos is what I like the most.
zypper up from repo…
Zypper as far as is LEEEENTO xD
zypper had a deep bug that I reported that I don't know if they updated it, but when I had the 30 megabytes vdsl of movistar Spain, zypper used me ipv6, and even deactivating ipv6, it kept going all only at 50, maximum 60 kb / s, it was change company and that stopped happening, it only happened to me with opensuse.
It was slow. Zypper has improved a lot and currently works quite well, it downloads large batches of updates very quickly.
To say that the introduction of delta-rpm has also played its role in improving the management of updates, since only that part of the package in question that has been modified is updated, thus avoiding having to download complete packages and freeing up a lot download traffic.
So you haven't tried openSUSE since when?
I installed it the last time in 11.4, in 12.1 the live usb does not work well even if I do it with the dd command, and when installing crashea ...
You could have tried it with the "Imagewriter" application, which is in the OpenSUSE repositories, from a virtual machine for example. With that application the Live USB does not fail.
I will try from windows with vmware to see hehehe. I'll tell you.
I do it with dd_rescue because that's how it was in the wiki en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick but apparently now it's only with dd
My outdated programs don't bother me as long as they work perfectly, that's never been difficult for me to say. But I think the only thing I need to know about PC-LinuxOS is if the 32-bit version comes with the PAE kernel by default, because if I use the 64-bit version, I'll go to hell with a lot of things I use.
Not by default it has the 32-bit bfs version that only recognizes 3,5 gigs, the pae kernel is in the repositories and you can install it later, although I preferred not to do it at the time.
(I'm writing from another pc)
What are the differences between the two kernels?
The pae kernel is supposed to be a normal kernel for life, and the bfs is the one that was made to improve the response on the desktop, I honestly notice the bfs kernel much faster than the normal kernels, on this pc where I have chakra, I have compiled it and I really notice the difference.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bfs_two_years&num=1
PCLinuxOS does not have a 64-bit version, only a 32-bit version. It was rumored a long time ago that the 64-bit version was planned and in development, but as of today nothing concrete is known.
The 64-bit one is in development, in fact you can download the isos. I honestly do not like opensuse, the way of managing the repositories seems fatal to me, in that pclinux is cleaner, besides that opensuse does not come with the proprietary drivers by default and the appearance is not that it is very careful, it is a clean kde.
That the appearance is not taken care of in OpenSUSE? : S I totally disagree, precisely OpenSUSE is one of the ones that takes care of the most and the one that best integrates KDE. If we were to talk about Fedora, then I wouldn't argue with you, because that does come with clean environments, but it is not the case with OpenSUSE. What does not come with the proprietary drivers by default is normal in the Linux ecosystem.
And of course man, if we compare the OpenSUSE repositories with those of PCLinuxOS, of course it is much more centralized in PCLinuxOS, in fact if I'm not wrong it uses one repository for everything. Still, I can say that I am not lacking for anything in OpenSUSE, and the packages are updated almost daily, which I have not seen so far in any of the other distros I have used.
In the appearance of opensuse what I see is the kde theme of a lifetime with a green background ..., to me that does not seem to take care of the appearance, the letters do not know if it is my fault, but they do not show any smoothing, and the repositories are a mess, the last time I touched them with 12.1, I broke dependencies for several programs, I am a distro that I would not recommend for someone who wants to use it without learning too much.
This does not seem to me to take care of appearance
http://alejandrocq.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/opensuse-12-1-4.png?w=630
Well, tastes colors after all.
It is true that the sources are not comfortable, that was the first thing I changed from the beginning, but the rest, great.
About repos and dependencies ... well, I don't know how you did it, because when you update a package from YaST it alerts you if there are conflicts with dependencies and offers you various actions to take, from keeping the package, to updating dependencies or changing the repository source thereof, or tear the package at your own risk.
And there are usually no problems with the repositories, no matter how many, but you also have to take into account which ones are added, for example, you cannot use the normal version repositories and at the same time the Tumbleweed repository (which is rolling-release type), because obviously at some point something will break. Neither use the repositories of different editions of KDE in parallel, that is, if you have KDE 4.7 and want to keep it, don't add the KDE 4.8 repositories, or if you install KDE 4.8, delete the KDE 4.7 repositories, they are obvious things, right?
For example, I have configured the normal repositories for the version + some community repositories that interested me + those for KDE 4.8, and I don't have any problems.
My PC linux OS makes me a great OS, in its APPS it is not at all outdated but in KDE SC, in a few words PCLOS is and is not for versionitics
Yes, but there is no way to check any list of packages to know where the versions go and the whole story.
Just search a little xd
http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/SRPMS.main/
http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/Linux/distr/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/
says 2010 but in reality they are the ones from now xD
pkgs.org, little padawans 😛
I had forgotten that detail ... xD
A great option without a doubt, worse I keep staying with Chakra
and me too!!!! Chakra Rules !!!! 🙂
Being derived from who she is and having her Drakes, no wonder how well it worked for you 😉
Derived from whom?
Derivative of Mandriva heheh
As pandev tells you, PCLinuxOS is a fork of Mandriva, more specifically, Mandrake 9.2 (Texar was a Mandrake developer), although it has been adding all the improvements that have been introduced since Mandriva, especially the drakes.
In Pclinuxos you can unasar aptitude or just apt?
Just APT, greetings.
Another one that is Rolling Release 😉
Undoubtedly, a while ago the test, excellent hardware recognition, the version I used was the version with LXDE.
Cheers!
It will be the serene as they say in my town, but what I am I will never forgive SuSE for its betrayal of free software, they have little to do to be Microsoft Linux.
No I'm not trolling 🙂