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In hopes of encouraging users to be sure to install updates, on the first boot after installation PCLinuxOS brings up a reminder window that basically says 'be sure to install updates'. Those are all quite good, and that Firefox release is really 'hot off the press'. The last time I wrote about PCLinuxOS I was a bit critical about its Linux kernel version being quite a bit behind most of the other mainstream Linux distributions, so I was pleased to see that they have really caught up with this release.

If anyone has an example where it is really necessary or produces some benefit, please let me know in the comments of course, the same is true if you have a case where it actually caused a problem. I haven't seen or heard of any cases where this actually caused a problem, but it bothers me in principle, so I always just delete it. Oh, there is one other relic lurking in this old installer, it still creates an nf file which hasn't been necessary for quite a while. The sequence of questions and actions is a bit unusual but in the end it works well, and reliably gets the job done. PCLinuxOS still uses the same installer they have had for as long as I can remember, which was originally derived from the Mandriva/Mandrake installer. At the extremes, the Full Monty image is a whopping 4GB, and the MiniMe (stripped-down KDE) is only 547GB. It's interesting to note the difference in the ISO image sizes: KDE is 1.6GB while LXDE is only 647MB (so it will still fit on a CD). The Full Monty download page includes screen shots of each of these desktops.įor this post I have installed the KDE release on a Lenovo T400, and the LXDE version on a Samsung N150 Plus netbook.

Administration - System management tasks.

Multimedia - music, video, editing and composing.

The intention is to make using PCLinuxOS easy and fun, by providing the following desktops, each with its own specific wallpaper:

The really interesting bit, though, is the activity-focused virtual desktop configuration.

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It is an interesting concept, as you might assume from the name it includes a lot of packages, applications and drivers which are not in the standard distribution. If you are not familiar with the Full Monty version, take a look at the description of it on the download page. As always, the standard distribution is KDE, and there are community versions with LXDE and MATE, plus a ' Full Monty' distribution. The latest set of PCLinuxOS ISO images were made available last week, in both 32- and 64-bit versions and a variety of desktops. This is something I don't get to do very often, writing about a new release that has not been announced on Distrowatch.

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