[NTLUG:Discuss] Desktop Linux - From Open Source

[Mike Hart]

PCLinuxOS is by far the favorite. It has been #1 on
distrowatch for some time (8 months?) and for good
reason. 

http://www.distrowatch.org

Out of the box, it handles everything except encrypted
DVD's, and they are easily handled with synaptic and
searching for 'codec'.  It doesn't get any easier than
this. Synaptic has something like 7000 packages in the
list... They have every program I could think of
except maybe enemy territory (which I have the .gz
version of already....)

The only downside is that the base install disc is now
about 9 months old, so the initial 'update' after you
do a fresh install is about a 500meg download. 

There are rumors of a 2008 version soon, which should
reset the update time. Also, due to the overwhelming
popularity, expect to have to retry to connect
synaptic to a server several times.  there are
different servers listed in the repository list. 



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