Comments on: PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 – Review, Thoughts and Screenshots http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/ In the world of linux your boundaries are free Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:47:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben | debt solutions http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-8217 PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben | debt solutions Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:21:03 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-8217 [...] PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben Posted by root 58 minutes ago (http://www.benkevan.com) Quite frankly i was looking at some free solutions for an enterprise edition based on the de that i prefer kde along with a distribution that would be Discuss  |  Bury |  News | PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben [...] [...] PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben Posted by root 58 minutes ago (http://www.benkevan.com) Quite frankly i was looking at some free solutions for an enterprise edition based on the de that i prefer kde along with a distribution that would be Discuss  |  Bury |  News | PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 Review Thoughts and Screenshots Ben [...]

]]> By: Early Look at PCLinuxOS 2009 (Beta 2) http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7966 Early Look at PCLinuxOS 2009 (Beta 2) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:21:55 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7966 [...] http://www.benkevan.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/ [...] [...] http://www.benkevan.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/ [...]

]]> By: manmath sahu http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7650 manmath sahu Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:09:17 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7650 I hope pclinuxos 2009 final will come with OO.o 3 though the beta has the stable 2.4.1 version. And as for my trials I found pclos 2009 beta2 quite stable and usable like its predecessor. It is going to be a distro-hopper-stopper. I hope pclinuxos 2009 final will come with OO.o 3 though the beta has the stable 2.4.1 version. And as for my trials I found pclos 2009 beta2 quite stable and usable like its predecessor. It is going to be a distro-hopper-stopper.

]]> By: rogermax http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7649 rogermax Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:32:03 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7649 can not wait the final release! can not wait the final release!

]]> By: eglosenger http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7634 eglosenger Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:16:39 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7634 Considering this is a test release, it has been far more stable and easy to set up on my new computer than Fedora 10, SUSE 11.1, or Mandriva 2009. The folks at PCLOS take their time to release the final, but when it is released it will be rock solid, as it should be. Considering this is a test release, it has been far more stable and easy to set up on my new computer than Fedora 10, SUSE 11.1, or Mandriva 2009. The folks at PCLOS take their time to release the final, but when it is released it will be rock solid, as it should be.

]]> By: gettinther http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7624 gettinther Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:38:53 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7624 Openoffice3.0 will be released as part of 2009 Final release. We did not include it as part of this release as we were unhappy with its stability. Thank you for testing pclos and for the feedback. As previously said, most of the up to date applications are in testing. Due to internal issues we were temporarily unable to release them to stable and allowed testing to grow out out proportion. We are now in the process of stabilizing the repo and will be moving everything to stable soon. We disabled the repos in this release to ensure we would not get erroneous reports at this critical time of the release process as TR5 is built against testing. Openoffice3.0 will be released as part of 2009 Final release. We did not include it as part of this release as we were unhappy with its stability. Thank you for testing pclos and for the feedback.
As previously said, most of the up to date applications are in testing. Due to internal issues we were temporarily unable to release them to stable and allowed testing to grow out out proportion. We are now in the process of stabilizing the repo and will be moving everything to stable soon.
We disabled the repos in this release to ensure we would not get erroneous reports at this critical time of the release process as TR5 is built against testing.

]]> By: imchairmanm http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7623 imchairmanm Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:34:41 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7623 Yes, because PCLinuxOS uses a rolling release structure, the "testing" repositories are currently frozen and many of the newer versions of packages aren't available yet. I'm under the impression that some of the newer versions of the packages are being worked on, but have known bugs that are being patched up and the older versions of the packages were included for completeness of the beta release. I'm not sure about this though. If you are looking for an enterprise solution based on PCLinuxOS though, check out http://pclosbe.org/, which is a business-based remaster. Yes, because PCLinuxOS uses a rolling release structure, the “testing” repositories are currently frozen and many of the newer versions of packages aren’t available yet. I’m under the impression that some of the newer versions of the packages are being worked on, but have known bugs that are being patched up and the older versions of the packages were included for completeness of the beta release. I’m not sure about this though. If you are looking for an enterprise solution based on PCLinuxOS though, check out http://pclosbe.org/, which is a business-based remaster.

]]> By: mikkl http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7622 mikkl Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:22:03 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7622 Thanks for the early review and screenshots. You mention "but the lack of major repositories, major community support, corporate funding and some vital outdated applications (mainly openoffice.org) are the things that would keep me from using it". Once this version reaches production, you will find that PCLOS has all of these but the corporate sponsor. The repositories are many and stable (the beta has them disabled for now but they are there and large), the support community on the PLCOS forums is active and friendly, and though the focus on stability means that older apps may be on the release CD, more cutting edge apps are usually available in the repositories. And since PCLOS is a rolling upgrade folks such as myself with a working 2007 install will not have to wipe and reinstall. A simple "Upgrade all" in Synaptic will bring my install up to date with the release on the CD. Thanks for the early review and screenshots. You mention “but the lack of major repositories, major community support, corporate funding and some vital outdated applications (mainly openoffice.org) are the things that would keep me from using it”. Once this version reaches production, you will find that PCLOS has all of these but the corporate sponsor. The repositories are many and stable (the beta has them disabled for now but they are there and large), the support community on the PLCOS forums is active and friendly, and though the focus on stability means that older apps may be on the release CD, more cutting edge apps are usually available in the repositories. And since PCLOS is a rolling upgrade folks such as myself with a working 2007 install will not have to wipe and reinstall. A simple “Upgrade all” in Synaptic will bring my install up to date with the release on the CD.

]]> By: ben.kevan http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7621 ben.kevan Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:20:54 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7621 Dave, I am not sure what you are getting at. The article is titled Beta 2. I highly doubt that they will decide to go to openoffice 3.0 before Final, I did not harp on any bugs, and only talked about non disruptive things. Again, just read the title it's called "PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 - Review, Thoughts and Screenshots? Dave,

I am not sure what you are getting at. The article is titled Beta 2. I highly doubt that they will decide to go to openoffice 3.0 before Final, I did not harp on any bugs, and only talked about non disruptive things.

Again, just read the title it’s called “PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 – Review, Thoughts and Screenshots?

]]> By: Dave Le Huray http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7620 Dave Le Huray Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:00:30 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7620 Unfortunately you forgot to mention to your readers that this release is a BETA and not yet designed for general release - although your readers shoujld be able to deduce this by the title. The release notes on the PCLinuxOS forums include the following: quote We request that only our more experienced PCLinuxOS users test this beta release and report any issues with it in the forum provided specially for it. http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&board=50.0 Testers are advised to install this beta into a separate partition for temporary use only. This and any subsequent beta iso's are considered static installs and will not be upgradable to the 2009 Final, so please don't install this with the idea of using it long term as a work station. Some users may be asked to test file edits, etc; to attempt bug fixes, but updated packages will not necessarily be supplied. When enough bugfixes accumulate we will release the next beta iso. unquote Regards Dave Le Huray Guernsey Unfortunately you forgot to mention to your readers that this release is a BETA and not yet designed for general release – although your readers shoujld be able to deduce this by the title. The release notes on the PCLinuxOS forums include the following:

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We request that only our more experienced PCLinuxOS users test this beta release and report any issues with it in the forum provided specially for it.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&board=50.0
Testers are advised to install this beta into a separate partition for temporary use only. This and any subsequent beta iso’s are considered static installs and will not be upgradable to the 2009 Final, so please don’t install this with the idea of using it long term as a work station. Some users may be asked to test file edits, etc; to attempt bug fixes, but updated packages will not necessarily be supplied. When enough bugfixes accumulate we will release the next beta iso.

unquote

Regards

Dave Le Huray
Guernsey

]]> By: everts garay http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7619 everts garay Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:28:58 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7619 Maybe i will give a try when it has finished. but i was hoping the openoffice 3.0 was pre installed. Maybe i will give a try when it has finished.
but i was hoping the openoffice 3.0 was pre installed.

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]]> By: devnet http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7616 devnet Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:42:03 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7616 @villicampa PCLinuxOS has now revamped its translation project. Check for your language status here: http://l10n.ipclinuxos.com/ @villicampa

PCLinuxOS has now revamped its translation project. Check for your language status here: http://l10n.ipclinuxos.com/

]]> By: ben.kevan http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7615 ben.kevan Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:51:25 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7615 Anon, applications:/ and system:/ are both indeed KDE stock features, but that is not what I touted. I touted the addition of system:/applications. Which to me helps centralize things a bit more instead of having a separate applications KIO. Villacampa, Thanks for the information on "where" the Control Center came from. I'll def have to check out the latest Mandriva build. afs, I know it's not touted as being an enterprise touted release, but it's method of release and the way they release it seem to follow more the "Enterprise" mentality and not the bleeding edge mentality. Anon,

applications:/ and system:/ are both indeed KDE stock features, but that is not what I touted. I touted the addition of system:/applications. Which to me helps centralize things a bit more instead of having a separate applications KIO.

Villacampa,

Thanks for the information on “where” the Control Center came from. I’ll def have to check out the latest Mandriva build.

afs,

I know it’s not touted as being an enterprise touted release, but it’s method of release and the way they release it seem to follow more the “Enterprise” mentality and not the bleeding edge mentality.

]]> By: afs http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7614 afs Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:50:21 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7614 PCLOS makes no claim to being for the enterprise. From "About" on the distribution's website: "...the PCLinux operating system, is a free, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system for the home." PCLOS makes no claim to being for the enterprise. From “About” on the distribution’s website:

“…the PCLinux operating system, is a free, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system for the home.”

]]> By: Villacampa http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7613 Villacampa Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:16:18 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7613 The Control Center is from Mandriva Linux. The PCLinuxOS developers has taken the code from them and revamped it a bit. At this moment i still enjoy more mandriva linux than pclinuxos. First of all because my first language is spanish and Mandriva has a stronger spanish community. The Control Center is from Mandriva Linux. The PCLinuxOS developers has taken the code from them and revamped it a bit.

At this moment i still enjoy more mandriva linux than pclinuxos. First of all because my first language is spanish and Mandriva has a stronger spanish community.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.freetechie.com/blog/pclinuxos-2009-beta-2-review-thoughts-and-screenshots/comment-page-1/#comment-7612 Anonymous Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:29:24 +0000 http://www.benkevan.com/blog/?p=300#comment-7612 applications:/ and system:/ KIO slaves are stock KDE 3.5 features, dunno why you promote them as PCLinuxOS features. applications:/ and system:/ KIO slaves are stock KDE 3.5 features, dunno why you promote them as PCLinuxOS features.

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