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schestowitz@wildmail.com - 26 Jan 2007 17:11 GMT

PCLinuxOS, Distros, and 10 reasons to try PCLinuxOS.

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| 1. It's drop dead gorgeous, and very professional looking.
| 2. The Beryl/Compiz 3D acceleration effects are terrific--much
| better than any other distro I've tried.
| 3. The repository has over 5000 packages, and updates are
| incredibly prompt, smooth, and easy to do. Synaptic, the GUI
| package manager works easily and reliably with the repository's
| RPM packages. Dependency issues are usually well handled. All
| the development programs and libraries are up to date.
| 4. An up to date KDE version (3.5.6).
| 5. Bugs, problems, and issues are promptly fixed.
| 6. The PCLinuxOS community is positive and helpful.
| Documentation is excellent. Support is excellent.
| 7. It's quick and snappy.
| 8. Everything works.
| 9. Its very easy to install ... and ...
| 10. It doesn't require the largess and financial backing
| of a millionaire to keep it going.

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chrisv - 26 Jan 2007 18:06 GMT

>PCLinuxOS, Distros, and 10 reasons to try PCLinuxOS.

>| 10. It doesn't require the largess and financial backing
>| of a millionaire to keep it going.

This is clearly a shot at ubuntu, but I'd bet the "largess" is only
intended to get the ball rolling, with the long-term plan for ubuntu
to be self-sufficient, or even profitable.

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The Ghost In The Machine - 26 Jan 2007 18:09 GMT

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, chrisv
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on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:06:06 -0600
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>>PCLinuxOS, Distros, and 10 reasons to try PCLinuxOS.
>
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> intended to get the ball rolling, with the long-term plan for ubuntu
> to be self-sufficient, or even profitable.

If all goes well. Certainly RHT is profitable (though a
pipsqueak compared to MSFT); there's a market out there.

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flatfish+++ - 26 Jan 2007 19:59 GMT

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:11:51 -0800, schestowitz wrote:

> PCLinuxOS, Distros, and 10 reasons to try PCLinuxOS.
>
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> http://www.tuxmachines.or

It's about time that Roy posted something that was factual.
While I can't comment on #2 because I have not tried that stuff, the other
9 are right on the money.

As for #10, it's true.
Shuttlecock's money has certainly helped push ubuntu, which is buggy and
not as good as PCLinuxOS (IMHO) to the top of distrowatch overall.

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NoStop - 27 Jan 2007 00:30 GMT

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:11:51 -0800, schestowitz wrote:
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> Shuttlecock's money has certainly helped push ubuntu, which is buggy and
> not as good as PCLinuxOS (IMHO) to the top of distrowatch overall.

Yeh but it runs KDE which is only around to make it easier for Wintards like
you able to open web browser in Linux.

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WindsorFox - 27 Jan 2007 05:02 GMT

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:11:51 -0800, schestowitz wrote:
>
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> While I can't comment on #2 because I have not tried that stuff, the other
> 9 are right on the money.

It's about time Roy stop trolling and cross posting to a car news
group.

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Roy Schestowitz - 27 Jan 2007 08:41 GMT

__/ [ WindsorFox ] on Saturday 27 January 2007 05:02 \__

>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:11:51 -0800, schestowitz wrote:
>>
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> It's about time Roy stop trolling and cross posting to a car news
> group.

It's an imposter. I didn't post this to a car newsgroup.

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Damian O'Leary - 26 Jan 2007 21:23 GMT

> PCLinuxOS, Distros, and 10 reasons to try PCLinuxOS.
>
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> | 1. It's drop dead gorgeous, and very professional looking.
> | 2. The Beryl/Compiz 3D acceleration effects are terrific--much
> | better than any other distro I've tried.

Why is it any different? Answer : it isn't. FUD.

> | 3. The repository has over 5000 packages, and updates are
> | incredibly prompt, smooth, and easy to do. Synaptic, the GUI

No smoother than Ubuntu breed.

> | package manager works easily and reliably with the repository's
> | RPM packages. Dependency issues are usually well handled. All
> | the development programs and libraries are up to date.
> | 4. An up to date KDE version (3.5.6).
> | 5. Bugs, problems, and issues are promptly fixed.

Guesswork.

> | 6. The PCLinuxOS community is positive and helpful.
> | Documentation is excellent. Support is excellent.

Unlike this NG.

> | 7. It's quick and snappy.
> | 8. Everything works.

No. Not everything works. Who wrote this? A fanboy?

> | 9. Its very easy to install ... and ...
> | 10. It doesn't require the largess and financial backing
> | of a millionaire to keep it going.

What does this mean?

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