![]() However, I keep PCLinuxOS as my main distro. ![]() I still load all sorts of distros on another partition like openSUSE, Korora, Fedora, Linux Mint, Mageia. I've come and gone from distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse, Mandrake, Red Hat. I've been a user since Red Hat 5.2,and found PCLinuxOS about 2006 with release. See the forums for details.) Reply Delete (There are some special, extra repos that can be enabled. So trying to use multiple repos can confuse synaptic and mess up your system. All repositories are simply mirrors of the primary, but at any given time might be in different stages of being updated. Oh, and one point from the article: with PCLOS, pick ONE, repeat, ONE, repository. I last installed the 2010 release, yet my system is totally up to date, and reports as being the 2013.2 release. (I usually check once a week, but I have gone as much as 6 weeks ata crack, with no serious issues.) As a side effect of this, users don't need to reinstall every 6 months or yearly. Users should check for and install any and all updates at least once a month. One thing to note: PCLOS is a rolling release OS. I still run PCLOS because after a long day of dealing with command-line-only *nix servers, I want a system that "just works". At the time, PCLOS was still in beta (I started with the 0.92 release). I switched to PCLOS about 7 years ago because an update for Mandriva (which I was running until then) borked my system. ![]() I installed the live KDE version to a USB drive using UNetbootin and rebooted the computer. (The same machine that I had previously installed openSUSE and Debian). ![]() The machine I chose to install PCLinuxOS on is the Samsung R20. You can download PCLinuxOS from this link. Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows Vista. Installation Click here for a full guide showing how to dual boot PCLinuxOS with Windows XP. PCLinuxOS is aimed at a similar audience to Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin but unlike those operating systems PCLinuxOS is not based on Debian. This week I am looking at one of the more user friendly operating systems and one a Windows user looking to move to Linux for the first time.might want to try. Last week I tackled Debian and before that I tackled openSUSE. In the past couple of weeks I have taken a look at two of the more popular Linux operating systems. ![]()
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