On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:15, stuart bell wrote: > Hi, > I'll probably upset the Mandy purists but PCLinuxOS is a very good > development of Mandriva. It works well on my old laptop and has a > tremendous automatic downloader/installer that does away with all the > newbie problems. > S
I have PCLinuxOS on my laptop, dual booting with Windows XP. It's the latest version of PCLinuxOs. On my desktop PC I have Mandriva 2007. I had been running Mandrake/Mandriva since 8.xx but I had problems on both computers with 2006 so I tried PCLinuxOS. I've been happy using it. My only problem is that some software that I'd like to try is sometimes not available. I look at several Linux magazines and they often mention some software that looks interesting but I often can't find it on PCLinux Repositories and you are discouraged from installing software from other sources. You can request that the package be made available if you'd like but I've never done that. With Mandriva, the package is often already available to download through URPMI. PCLinuxOS uses Synaptic to download software. I'm using PCLinuxOS now so I can't check this but I think Synaptic or some variation is available for Mandriva. Incidentally, the problems I had on my desktop PC are gone now that I've installed 2007. Eric Jackson > Registered Linux Mangler #001 > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
