[juneau-lug] Re: PCLinuxOS 2004

  • From: Stephen <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:27:07 -0800

>Given the weather, I doubt anyone will read this until late tonight.  :)
>Happy Easter.
>
>I've downloaded another Live CD distribution, "PCLinuxOS 2004" and 
>can burn CDs for anyone interested.
>
>Unlike Knoppix & all of it's sundry specialized versions, this one 
>is .rpm based (using Mandrake), but it does have apt (and the 
>synaptic X front end)
>
>I tried it here, and it is well set up.  It uses KDE, and should 
>autodetect & set up X for you.  It had trouble with my machine, as 
>I've got two video cards which stumped it - but trying to figure out 
>a complex hardware configuration is a common problem with the live 
>CD distros.
>
>PCLinuxOS is intended for newer hardware, so it won't run on as many 
>machines as Knoppix will.  I wouldn't run it on anything slower than 
>750MHz, and it requires 256MB RAM.  I'd recommend 1.5GHz/512MB based 
>on my limited testing. 
>
>It does have a hard drive install, which I have not tested.  If you 
>do a hard drive install, the minimums would revert to those needed 
>by a normal Mandrake install, as everything wouldn't be run from a 
>ramdisk.  I'll eventually find a box to put this on, and test the 
>upgrade process.  Knoppix uses so many specialized apt sources that 
>I find it hard to keep a Knoppix hard drive install up to date 
>security wise - so I'm interested to see if PCLinuxOS is able to use 
>the normal Mandrake security update process.
>
>Anyway, it's available.  If you've got an extra box that you want to 
>test the hard drive install on, let me know and I'll get a CD to you.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James

So do they have 750mhz boxes down at Surplus now? Sheesh...what happened
to Linux being an OS for low-end boxes!

Stephen

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