[clue] [On Topic - Linux] Latest PCLinuxOS KDE release

[Collins Richey]

Here's an on-topic, timely, and useful link (so tagged) for all of the
3-year-olds who have nothing better to do than bicker about content
posted to the list. A comment from a co-worker who mostly lurks on the
list: this sounds just like my kids!

http://news.softpedia.com/news/PCLinuxOS-KDE-2012-02-Has-Been-Officially-Released-250220.shtml

I put up the predecessor PCL KDE 4 release nearly two years ago, and
it's up to date as of about 2 weeks ago, so my desktop looks almost
exactly like the new release, but the kernel is slightly down level.
PCL is a rolling release distro - install once, update forever.

If you follow suit, you'll never regret it. It's boring!!! Just apply
the upgrades every few weeks, and enjoy. There's no local team of
cheerleaders touting the latest and greatest abomination / distortion
of Unity / Gnome, and no release parties, but it just works always.
There is an adequate forum and monthly magazine, but I've usually
ignored those (to my own chagrin!) since I've had mostly no problems.
A couple of months back I had problems running upgrades. So I turned
to the forums, where I learned that everyone had been notified of a
mandatory upgrade procedure that was required to support a new version
of RPM. (PCL packages are RPMs, but they use apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade (or the equivalent via gui) to apply changes.)
The distro derived originally from Mandrake, so it has a RedHat look
and feel.

PCL also releases XFCE, LXDE, GNOME, etc. variants if you don't like
KDE. I've used the LXDE variant for my netbook.

Enjoy,

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.