[NTLUG:Discuss] PCLinuxOS 2009.1

[Robert Pearson]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep my wife on PCLinuxOS , she uses it with no problem .
> Did have a snafu with 2007 (Shuttle XPC) and the "Big Update" , lost USB
> Flash Drive usability , so when 2009.1 came out I did a install leaving
> /home , USB problem still existed , then I did a reformat and clean install
> of 2009.1 , better but still a few kinks .
> I have a Lenovo laptop it had 2008 MiniMe , Big Update worked flawlessly on
> it .
> My system (Alienware) is SuSE 11.1 , KDE 4.2.1 , PCLInuxOS is great for
> beginers .
> All systems are dual boot with XP .
>

Which file system is everyone using?
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 offered me the 2 choices of ext3 and XFS.
XFS would not install on one of my partitions but ext3 would so I have
one XFS install and one ext3 install.
All my Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 installs are using JFS which is great.!!!
I have tried ext2, ext3 (and maybe ext4?), XFS, ReiseFS plus some
others. I had never tried JFS.
The results have been like when ReiserFS first came out on Gentoo. FAST...
So far no problems like I have had with all the other file systems.
Those may not have been true file system problems because I
experienced data loss after file corruption. Maybe salvaging those
files is beyond the ability of a "journaling" file system. I blamed
the file system for the corruption. Just a guess...


> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM, david <david at rawcreations.net> wrote:
>
>> Robert Pearson wrote:
>> > On 3/18/09, Nat Both <nboth at verizon.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I even liked pclinuxos when it came out in May of '07. I don't know what
>> you old hands in the linux community think about it, but this old man thinks
>> it's pretty hot. The just released 2009.1 will do some neat stuff right off
>> the wire. It's the only distro I know of that will run some of my java based
>> financial trading platforms without a lot of twinking around. And that
>> includes Ubuntu 8.10. It will run Oanda.com currency trading platform right
>> off the install. Now for a 74 year old dummy (and most of the rest of the
>> world) this is a giant step in the right direction. I for one want to see
>> microshaft go broke, but LINUX has to be GUI JUI user friendly for that to
>> happen.
>> >>
>> >>  These guys at PCLINUXOS are high stepping in that direction!
>> >>
>> >>  I still have a shuttle on which I tried to set up a dual boot and for
>> now have lost all my prior windows stuff. I feel it could be made whole in
>> five minutes with the right hash bash magic. I am willing to bring it 50
>> miles if someone would do it.
>> >>
>> >>  Best Regards to All,
>> >>  Nat
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  Nat Both
>> >>  Rowlett (Dallas), Texas
>> >>  972.412.1354
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>> > Thanks for the "heads-up!" on PCLinux)S 2009.1.
>> > I used both PCLinuxOS 2007 (KDE) and PCLinuxOS Gnome and loved them.
>> > However, after the updates became few and far between and PCLinuxOS
>> > Gnome had a real problem with mangling my del.icio.us bookmarks I
>> > stopped using both.
>> > Now I'll give the new version a try.
>> >
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>> I installed PCLOS back at version .93 and have been using it every day.
>> I skipped the 2007
>> release because I have not had any problems. Now that all my apps are
>> out of date (ffmpeg, gcc...etc)
>> I bit the bullet and installed 2009 on a slave drive. It is everything I
>> expected from Tex and the
>> Ripper Gang. In the coming weeks I will be working on a remaster for
>> cleaning infected Windows
>> machines, similar to Trinity Rescue Kit. My first attempt, with Linux
>> from Scratch, went horribly
>> wrong. (wish me luck!) I haven't tried the Gnome version.
>> If some are looking for a new distro or just curious, by all means check
>> out this new release.
>> Burn a LiveCD or fire it up in a virtual machine.
>> http://www.pclinuxos.com
>>
>> P.S. +1 for AdBlock Plus, and I also recommend NoScript. "Like peas and
>> carrots!"
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