Review of PCLinuxOS 2007 Test Release 4 - Linux

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by Office 2010 on Friday 25th of March 2011 at 23:18

i like pclinuxos. most shortcomings have been due to my own "noob" status. important thing is that my wife and kids like it enough that i might be able to get rid of all but one Windoze box.

after using ubuntu for 8 months, i almost feel guilty that pclinux is so easy to use. i spend much less time at the command line.

hats off to texstar and the ripper gang!

by gardawg on Friday 21st of September 2007 at 11:00

Hats off to PCLinuxOS 2007. Went through manmath sahu’s blog on tweaking pclinuxos at http://pclinuxos2007.blogspot.com
and waiting for its gnome version.

by krushna panda on Wednesday 5th of September 2007 at 22:23

Thanks Harpo,

In addition "Geoff", thanks for the "(that is what the TR in the name means)" in your post. I’d never have worked that out.

Oh hang on, introduction paragraph "Let’s see how test release 4 behaves."

Forgive the rudeness but I abhor people who are too lazy to form their opinions properly. Read the content and then comment, don’t read until you see one word that could possibly be negative and try to flame.

by Seopher on Saturday 12th of May 2007 at 10:18

[GeoffB]

You’re full of ****. Read the review before you decide the author has "condemned" it. There’s nothing of the kind here.

I bet you’re the useless kind of person who reads the first ****ing paragraph and then decide to make your conclusions. You’re the kind of person who gives those of us in the community a bad name.

by Harpo on Saturday 12th of May 2007 at 10:15

> Geoff

Thanks for the lovely comment, I appreciate well thought out feedback. Sorry for slating the release so much by saying things like:

"It really is shaping up to be a marvelous release."

and

"It feels polished and adaptable in ways that I probably can’t even imagine."

and maybe even my clear acceptance of it being a test release

"Now it’s just a case of waiting for the final release and giving it a full critique."

So please Geoff, read the article and some of the other material surrounding the review before deciding to write a comment.

by Seopher on Saturday 12th of May 2007 at 10:12

This is a test release (that is what the TR in the name means). PcLinuxOS 2007 should not be reviewed and condemned because of a few flaws that will be gone when it reaches Final. The whole point of test releases is to find the bugs. If you are going to test and review a distro why do it in a VM, that will never show the full potential of any distro, On that point alone your review is pointless and invalid.

Geoff

by GeoffB on Saturday 12th of May 2007 at 07:40

"...is the presence of the NTFS R/W driver. In Feisty this meant that you could connect directly to a Samba share and access files directly from there."

Please don’t mix NTFS R/W driver (which allows access to hard drives/file systems on your local machine) AND network (samba) shares (handling of file system is done by host - you work with files, not file systems) -> you don’t need NTFS for Samba shares!

best wishes :-)

by Anton Asche on Thursday 10th of May 2007 at 07:11

Hi,
mplayer and kplayer work fine, but kaffeine or xine cause bad pixelation on playing wmv files, and I thik there are driver or library conflicts, perhaps of realplayer origin.
This seems to happen in Kubuntu too after installing Gxine, ad other libraries including realplayer ones.
It is shaping up to be a fine release other than a few glitches that are probably not Tex’s fault.
Best

by Zos on Friday 4th of May 2007 at 18:48

As i have just jumped to Linux from Windows, (still have dual boot), i found that some hardware did not work. like Printer Cannon IP4300, for my laptop which is Asus A6J 1gb Ram, DualCore t2300, the wireless didnt want to work. if the problem doesnt get fixed this is going to he sad because there are a few people with these specs that cant get em to work. my Email dalivor01@optusnet.com.au and ph +61414755105 if anyone has information or good video tutorials for linux and Java jdk programing. After all its a good distro and they will do their best.

by Dado on Wednesday 2nd of May 2007 at 21:27

I am a real fan of PCLinuxOS "Big Daddy - 0.93a". I have tested quite a few Linux distros and this one does everything I want. I hope Texstar and the other experts slow down a bit. I have tried both TR-3 and TR-4 and I find them to be more and more buggy and difficult to use as time goes on. In fact, I have dumped both TR-3 and TR-4 and gone back to :Big Daddy" because I couldn’t get simple things like external USB hard drives and PCMCIA wireless cards to work which were no problem before. I think this distro has a lot of potential -- please don’t try so hard to meet schedules that you progress backwards any more!!

by Don Metzger on Wednesday 2nd of May 2007 at 20:29

(...) Unfortunately PCLinuxOS wasn’t as easy with it’s Samba share access (something I hope gets resolved before the final release); offering me the small consolation of an error message. (...)

The PCLinusOS NTFS R/W driver it’s working perfectly well. I did the same test as you did (virtual machine also) and the access to smb://domainuser@machine/D$/lixo � went quite well. Perhaps the problem is with your network. :)

by QueSeca on Wednesday 2nd of May 2007 at 10:15

The easiest distro for newbies like me,
No real problems!! I love Linux, I love PclinuxOS

by Kees on Tuesday 1st of May 2007 at 13:21

I’ve been a PCLOS user since 0.93a "Junior". It replaced my Kanotix...which I love for bringing me to and keeping me at the Linux table. I have tried and tested personally every one of the top 20 distros maybe more and really nothing has come close to it in it’s hardware friendliness. Yes that include Ubuntu. I have been searching for a Gnome distro that just is as friendly and easy as PCLOS. Mint came close but like Ubuntu I could not set up wireless. I never test these in VMWARE and I truly don’t understand someone being able to post a true critique from that sort of experience. Maybe that is akin to reviewing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy after watching it on your video ipod. Come on guys! we want REAL reviews not Virtual ones.

by beany on Tuesday 1st of May 2007 at 09:41

Two issues with PCLinuxOS 2007 TR4:
Ugly fonts and WPA wireless encryption. I wish I could easily switch back to the networkManager and KnetworkManager combo just like in Mepis.

by Thibje on Tuesday 1st of May 2007 at 05:13

Have been using previous version for last few years. Constantly on the
lookout for a better experience, but keep coming back to PCLOS. TR4
looks and feels fantastic. Puppy is still the fastest on my old Dell
PIII notebook, but PCLOS comes in at a close second. Video always
worked well and looked good, new version looks even better.

Can’t wait for the final product.. hope my $20 will help with the dev. costs
:)

by SteveWIn on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 21:34

always a fun and smart distro for everyday use. pc linux os never gives me that feeling of uncertainty of what can go wrong next, but in fact it’s the exact opposite.

by mark on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 20:15

I have been using this os since test 3 and have no problems with fonts it looks pretty much
the same as my pld Suse system that I abandoned due to the Novell issue.
As for samba shares I use the included smb4k programe which seem to be very stable.
Ntfs rw is looked after by fuse/ntfs-3g which also works very well.
I have had problems with one or more of rhese in other distros.
Full marks to Tex and the ripper team!

by berthiggins on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 19:58

I’ve been using PCLOS previous release for about several months on my desktop and for me it’s a marvellous OS for replacing Windows. As far as hardware recognition goes, it detected all my hardware flawlessly. PCLOS is easy to tailor, has nice looks, comes with a lot of softwares, great control center, easy to add softwares using synaptic ( dependencies are well taken care of ), etc.,. And from other distros that I’ve tried ( although not the latest one ) , namely Mandriva, Ubuntu 6, Mint 2.2, Knoppix, SuSe, etc., PCLOS is the most suitable for my needs, but I believe each one’s needs are different ........ :-D

by Adri F. on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 19:19

How much available software does it have it the repositories compared to Ubuntu or Mandriva?

by joe on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 17:38

Is the best distro i have used but they are having a lot of problems with the packages included in the repos: missing important software and broken libs etc. I hope they adress this important issue for the final release. Right now i’m running without Bluetooth (was working with TR1 & TR2)

by MacLone on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 17:12

careful consideration has been taken in this release...an entire graphics team has been working on making sure fonts/graphics/appearance are the best theyc an be...so give it a try and see if it’s improved :)

by devnet on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 17:10

I have tried the previous release and it was great in many respects - it is highly polished, easy to use, fast and stable distro. However, I erased it from my machine because it had one showstopper - fonts. Tehy looked like crap. I did whatever I can but all in vain. Fonts still looked terrible. Not a big deal, you may say. But for me it is imprtant. It really made impossible to look on my pclos screen. Now I run Debian Lenny and have extremely good fonts. Better than SuSE. I hope that they will deal with this issue, as I think that PCLOS is very promising distro, better than Ubuntu. However, I’ll stick with Debian. It does all that I need.
Good luck!

by Eudoxus on Monday 30th of April 2007 at 15:49