PCLOS
Those good surprises...
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 12th of September 2017 11:00:26 AM Filed under
PCLinuxOS has always remained a reliable OS to work and, as the update included Lomanager, the distro's method to update LibreOffice, I couldn't delay.
Although the update was fast, LibreOffice was taking a considerable time to finish. Yes, I must thank my ISP for that: my connection has been unstable for over a week, with a speed sometimes down to a crawl.
Speed was abnormally slow. I became a bit restless.
That was when I saw the Steam icon on my desktop...the round icon that had not been clicked on since October 2015.
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The September 2017 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Monday 4th of September 2017 07:35:55 PM Filed underThe PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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The August 2017 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 06:47:56 PM Filed underThe PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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The July 2017 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Tuesday 4th of July 2017 04:55:40 AM Filed underThe PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the July 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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The June 2017 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Monday 5th of June 2017 02:08:14 PM Filed underThe PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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PCLinuxOS Roll-Up Release: Another Linux installed on my new notebook
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 19th of May 2017 11:30:24 PM Filed under
I happened across a new ISO image for the PCLinuxOS KDE desktop distribution this week.
PCLOS is a classic rolling-release Linux distribution, so this is just a "roll-up" release, pulling all of the updates since the last release together to make new installations easier, faster and more reliable.
Every time a new rolling release update is made we talk about those first two points, how it makes installation faster and easier, but I think my recent experience with two ASUS laptops shows that the last point can be important as well.
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The May 2017 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Thursday 4th of May 2017 11:10:04 PM Filed under
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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PCLOS and blackPanther OS
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 14th of April 2017 08:31:38 PM Filed under-
Time for a change
Three days ago, I decided to abandon my efforts to rescue my PCLOS KDE4 install, which was destroyed by a connection disruption while updating. I lost my connection for over a week and, when my ISP finally solved the problem, my desktop was so messed up that I gave up on it and decided to give PCLOS KDE5 a chance.
I must confess that I am not a real fan of Plasma 5. However, as KDE4 is going the way of the dodo, I thought that it was better to take the leap and see how this beautiful Linux distro works with KDE's new desktop.
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LinuxAndUbuntu Distro Review Of The Week blackPanther OS
blackPanther OS is a Hungarian Linux distro. It takes out many features from other famous distros like GUI from fedora, drivers from Ubuntu and many others. The website of blackPanther OS states that:- “The blackPanther OS development started in 2002 by Charles K. Barcza. The First public version was 1.0 (Codename: Shadow) in 2003. Since then, the development is continuous, every year a new version is released. The last stable version, v16.1.2 has become available in Aug. of 2016. (The v16.2 is a special, non-free release, and v17.1 still under development) It was among the 5 top popular distributions January of 2010 on distrowatch.”
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PCLinuxOS 2017.03
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 10th of April 2017 02:34:00 AM Filed under
It has been about a year since I last explored the PCLinuxOS distribution. At that time I was experimenting with the project's MATE edition. Since I have not taken the chance to try PCLinuxOS since the distribution launched an edition with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, I thought it would be fun to revisit this project. PCLinuxOS currently ships with version 5.8 of the Plasma desktop which is a long term support release of Plasma. The ISO file I downloaded for PCLinuxOS was 1.3GB in size.
Booting from the distribution's live media brings up a menu asking how we would like to launch the operating system. We can choose to launch PCLinuxOS with a graphical desktop with the default settings, load the desktop with safe mode graphics settings, boot to a text console or launch the project's system installer. Taking one of the live desktop options soon brings up a window asking us to select our keyboard's layout from a list. Then the Plasma desktop loads. PCLinuxOS has a varied and colourful wallpaper. There are icons on the desktop which open the Dolphin file manager and launch the system installer. At the bottom of the screen we find a panel which houses the application menu, a few quick-launch buttons, a task switcher and the system tray.
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The April 2017 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
Submitted by MeeMaw on Monday 3rd of April 2017 07:52:09 PM Filed underThe PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2017 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community.
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and then most changes came in on Friday afternoon and Saturday (with
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weekend, but this time I took advantage of it, spending the quiet part
of last week diving instead.
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