Steve n Dan [Leaplist] PCLinuxOS 2007 LiveCD Beta released

["pberry2" at cfl.rr.com]

>>>>>> Well, I nodded off for a couple of days and the release snuck
>>>>>> by me. The announcement, features and some mirrors are at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=15044.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just tried it- found everything on my Toshiba, plus, it's gotten
>>>>>> purty - real purty. A really sweet distro just got even better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's well worth a look. Might answer Steve's question earlier.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, this review of the new release may answer Steve's
>>>>> question better:
>>>>> http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/12764
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks Chris, I took a look at the review, and noticed they no 
>>>> longer ship with IceWM.  Is it safe to assume it's available from 
>>>> the *new* 2007 repositories?
>>>>
>>>> I'm game to try it, but I'm not willing to give up IceWM - Thanks, Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan -
>>>
>>> As far as I know, here's the theory - they're doing a Beta on
>>> 2007 and taking notes about whose wireless card or DVD
>>> drive doesn't work - at the same time, they're pounding out
>>> the 2007 repo, so it's not quite final yet, although it should
>>> be in the next few days.
>>>
>>> But I'll bet a shiny nickel that, since there were three flavors
>>> of IceWM in 0.93 that it's already in the repos - or will be over
>>> the next few days. I'm away from my cd at the moment, but
>>> I'll boot it this evening and check Synaptic to see what it
>>> says.
>>
>> Well, this evening took longer than I thought - but, as expected,
>> there are indeed three flavors of IceWM in the 2007 repos.
>> So play away.
> Well I'm _Impressed_!
>
> I downloaded the iso during the late afternoon, and tried the live_cd 
> for an hour or two.  Then installed it, and surprise!  The first half 
> dozen things I typically have to install and configure for a new 
> Ubuntu installation, were already there, and for the most part well 
> configured by default.  Very nice so far.  I'm going to have to dig up 
> a 10 or 20GB laptop harddrive to give it a really thorough eval.  (Too 
> hard to test sitting on the floor with an old compaq clunker).  I'll 
> be very interested in finding if the mozilla quirks exist in 
> pclinuxos.  One of my biggest complaints about Ubuntu was their 
> frequent tweaking in the name of security, then having to "debug" what 
> they disabled.
>
> Thanks again, Chris, for the replies and the recommendation.  I'll 
> post back in a few days, after I get another drive, and let you know 
> how other things go.  I'll also probably have lots of questions about 
> distro differences as time goes by.
>
> Dan
>>
>> In other news, looks like PCLinuxOS is sitting at number one
>> over at distrowatch.org for the last 7-day period. There's a bit
>> of a buzz about this release - and it's not even a release, yet.
>>
>> Steve asked earlier, "Why PCLinuxOS" from a Mandriva
>> perspective. Here's an article from a Mandriva user's
>> point of view that may help.
>>
>> http://tuxmachines.org/node/12897
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>
I found that on a new Gateway laptop in Costco, the Intel wifi had 
problems, and offered to use a ndiswrapper or let a dedicated driver be 
used.
Had neither, and they may not have had the wifi network up, anyway.  
Otherwise, it looked OK, but, I did notice there were no games.  
Impressed some of the folks who accepted p93 CDroms. The beta certainly 
doesn't contain all the files we desire to have, and they might be left 
for the repository.

Booted this beta on a Pentium II, 350Mhz, with 192Mb RAM on a ASUS P2B 
board, Bios 1005, with AGP 4X video, a 32Mb Trident 3D image' card.     
Works well.  Boot might seem slow, but, it sure runs fast!