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PCLinuxOS Magazine – January 2010

Recently the PCLinuxOS Magazine staff released a new magazine, which will be used to keep the PCLinuxOS Community “in the know”. Best of all the magazine is for the community by the community.
The January 2010 Episode of the Magazine includes:
And the pdf version can be downloaded here.
Or if you choose you can view the HTML format
I have to admit, I’ve kind of [ continue reading... ]

Configuring Plasma Theme KDE 4.4

I know when people install KDE 4.4, they’ll be wondering “Where do I configure my Plasma Theme Now”.
This is mostly in part because it was moved from the “Desktop Settings” into systemsettings.
Here’s a little pictorial on changing it:
In the menu choose Configure Desktop (which is systemsettings via the command line)

In the General Tab double click on Appearance (hovering over it, will show you [ continue reading... ]

PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released

PSLinuxOS 2009.1 has been released, here’s some info from their main page:
This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop [ continue reading... ]

PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 – Review, Thoughts and Screenshots

With all the ranting and raving of PCLinuxOS 2007 I decided to give PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2 a shot. I started by downloading and launching the Live CD in a virtual machine. Here are a few screen shots I captured.

So why did I decide to give PCLinuxOS a shot? Quite frankly I was looking at some free solutions for an enterprise edition based on [ continue reading... ]