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PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download. Some highlights include: What is root? Configuring a 5 Button Mouse Burn an ISO Disk Google Goodies And more...

PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download. Some highlights include: What is root? Configuring a 5 Button Mouse Burn an ISO Disk Google Goodies And more...

PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download. Some highlights include: What is root? Configuring a 5 Button Mouse Burn an ISO Disk Google Goodies And more...

PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download. Some highlights include: What is root? Configuring a 5 Button Mouse Burn an ISO Disk Google Goodies And more...

PCLinuxOS Magazine, May 2008 (Issue 21) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website.

The latest issue of PCLinuxOS is out. 10 new articles on working with PCLinuxOS.

ruminationsonthedigitalrealm.org: I am not someone who believes that a Linux distributions sells itself, that technological achievement is enough to push it to the desktop of end users. As long as the educational systems keep on teaching Windows-based skills, there will be a lot of users who need some hand holding, some guidance, some instruction. What does PCLinuxOS have to offer in this regard? Advertisement: read more

temporaryland.wordpress: As I mentioned on Part 1 of this review the version of PCLinuxOS I am using is the MiniMe 2008 edition. For those of us that already know what applications we need, the MiniMe edition is actually preferred. It is very easy to install the needed applications from Synaptic. Also: PCLOS Day 10 - 2008 MiniME Edition Impressions Advertisement: read more

distrogue.blogspot: I waxed poetic about PCLinuxOS 2007 a few months ago when I compared it to Mint (and even earlier about version 0.93a). The new version, PCLinuxOS 2008, will ship with KDE 4, but at the time of writing, the final isn't out yet. They recently released a so-called "MiniMe" version of the final product with KDE 3.5, and it's better than ever- to the point that I would actually use it. Advertisement: read more

temporaryland.wordpress: A few weeks ago I wrote about my experiences installing several different distributions on my ThinkPad T61. One of the distributions I tested was PCLinuxOS 2007 and there were a couple of small issues. With the recent release of the 2008 version I thought it would be good to write about how this new version works on my laptop. However, that could be summarized in just one phrase: Advertisement: read more

ruminations: I am enjoying these days with the control center, but it’s time to wrap it up and move on. There are plenty of other things that need attention. Advertisement: read more

ruminations: I am enjoying these days with the control center, but it’s time to wrap it up and move on. There are plenty of other things that need attention. Advertisement: read more

ruminations: Another day at the control center. I am impressed with the scope of tasks that can be executed via one tool. Earlier I mentioned Webmin and the control center shares quite a few characteristics with that tool (though the functions are different, of course). Let’s continue digging deeper. Advertisement: read more

fareast.linuxdiary: Is a minimal version of PCLinuxOS that comes with just the bare bones, allowing you to install exactly what you need; the liveCD is a very fast boot, and true to its Mandriva roots is extremely easy to configure through the Control Centre. Advertisement: read more

ruminations: Two tasks remained under the heading Sharing: settting up file/printserver and setting up a share. The first task ran into a snag quickly with an error message that the name ‘localhost’ wasn’t correct for a DNS server. Setting up a Samba share wasn’t error free as well. Advertisement: read more