Posted on Sunday 21st of January 2007 at 13:09 in Linux

PCLinuxOS 2007 looks to be a belter

My favourite distro is due for release at the end of the month and is already looking to be quite the system. Tuxmachines.org had the scoop yesterday (read it here - although the site feels like it's being hammered). The beta is up on the PCLinuxOS site for some public testing so it's only just around the corner...

What to expect
This release is ALL new (Xorg 7.1.1, Gcc 4.1.1, Kernel 2.6.18, KDE 3.5.6) and is reported as being much faster than 0.93. It's also reported as being sexily stable even in this early beta release - which is a good start.

Beautification
Under-the-hood updates aside PCLOS seems determined to battle for the 'best looking distro' award because the screenshots look absolutely awesome (see them scattered across the article - all taken from TuxMachines.org - see above link).

Apps
It's shipping with Firefox 2, OpenOffice 2.1 and other popular pieces of software like KTorrent, GIMP, Mplayer, Amarok and more. It's basically complete upon download - which is nice. Multimedia functionality is excellent again with Flash9 also being included (apparently, although I've not confirmed this yet).

If you're interested in reading more then please visit Tuxmachines.org - a great website with the full rundown on the distro.

Come back soon!
Because the beta is downloading and I intend on having a play with it tomorrow evening after work so I can deliver my own verdict and use images that aren't from another site (which I've uploaded myself because their servers seem a little sluggish today). I should have my own 'review' up either 22nd or 23rd.

Check out the PCLOS 2007 beta download page.

 

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