Comments on: PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Review

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:45:59 +0000

That’s what Microsoft said about Linux. I guess we will be seeing PCLinuxOS for a long time to come…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:43:02 +0000

After seeing this same posting on every blng entry I found about PCLinuxOS, I have to say it sounds like an Ubuntu fanboy who just wants to give PCLinuxOS a bad name.

Sorry you weren’t smart enough to test out your modem in the live CD before installing. “dalfish”, but hey. PCLinuxOS can’t help you with *that* little problem.

By: dalfish

dalfish — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:29:38 +0000

PCLOS is failure when it come to supporting mobile broadband. I had a huawei ec325 modem which cannot be configured in PCLOS. I posted it in PCLOS official forums. I was not able to solve the problem. I regret my decison to switch to PCLOS. That decision was not a wise one. as my USBmodem worked flawlessly in ubuntu, linux mint and fedora.
if there is a hardware failure with the distro it can be kicked out. now i use ubuntu. i am not blaming any distro by this. i just want my devices to work in a distro.no matter which name it is. for the time being it works well in ubuntu. So naturally Ubuntu is my choice. i hopped back to ubuntu

By: butt_pirate

butt_pirate — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:41:04 +0000

of course pclinuxos is stable why? because its always 2 steps behind, in this day and age where we have kde 4 they still choose to release their distro with kde 3.5, i think however that they have a kde4 release on the horizon

By: finid

finid — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:39:30 +0000

Like they say, “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”

By: RO

RO — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:35:29 +0000

Re the background, I almost always set mine to plain black (or to a very dark shade of some color when I am feeling “decorative” to see the icons and windows more easily. I hate glare and clutter on the background, so just my quirkiness I guess …

By: Sadi

Sadi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:48:43 +0000

PCLinuxOS is simply AWESOME… I have been using Ubuntu for sometime… but to tell you guys the truth PCLOS has won my heart with its user friendly desktop.

By: Leo Orionis

Leo Orionis — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:06:26 +0000

Hello there:

I used Mandrake/Mandriva for a few years, then switched to PCLOS 2007 after hearing about it and trying it. Much less fiddling after installation than Mandriva, yet still has the great Mandriva tools! Recently I downloaded 2009.1 and it’s even better.

But now I have a fancy new computer with 5 “terabyte” hard disks and I want to use LVM to make them one big volume. Could I beg you to give me directions on how to do this? I found and installed LVM from the repositories, but I still don’t see a LVM tab on hard drake. What do I do, and in what order?

Thanks, and I’m sure there are others would appreciate you expounding this. — Leo

By: Ash Ward

Ash Ward — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:21:13 +0000

Have tried several disros over the last couple of years, but just keep coming back to PCLinux as I find it to be so damn easy to use, dead stable and even more so with this release. Unlike earlier releases, just haven’t been able to kill it !!
Many thanks for your great work Textar.
Love it
Ash…..

By: Monty

Monty — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:49:19 +0000

I think the graphics have a boldness that look great. I don’t have any intention of changing that graphic and it is running great on my quite old PIII. I think the reviewer is confused about the current level of influence Mandriva’s development still has on this distro thinking it is more like a common ‘buntu based distro and not its own independent distro as PCLOS is.

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By: travisn000

travisn000 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:24:07 +0000

Over all I think it is a pretty fair review.. yes, as much as I like PCLOS, I do have to agree the new theme is UGLY, but this does not detract from it’s stability and usability..

Also, a note about LVM on PCLinuxOS.. LVM is fully possible in PCLOS (I use it).. It just requires that you install the needed packages from the software repository, as they are not installed by default (I think the same is true of RAID).

By: pclosux

pclosux — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:07:03 +0000

PCLinuxOS is a lame Mandriva ripoff and will disappear soon in the dustbin of has-been distros who became irrelevant.

Oh, and it looks like butt…..

By: brad972

brad972 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:53:53 +0000

I’ve been using PC Linux for the past few years and all I can say is that if you are new to Linux, this is probably the best distro to start with. Everything you need is already installed and ready to use. Whether you need to publish web sites or want a multimedia machine, PC Linux fits the bill.

The KDE desktop is extremely customizable and the further you look, the more you will find within it. Wireless, video and sound drivers, even setting up a home server couldn’t be easier.

As Texstar said, it wasn’t necessarily his choice of the stock desktop background but there are other choices and you could always check out http://www.kde-look.org/ if you’d like to see more options.

For overall performance, stability and usability, you simple can’t go wrong with PC linux. Even the Gnome version is very sharp and you can always install your favorite KDE aps in your Gnome desktop and vice-versa or dual boot them both and have fun.