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

[Charles W Downing]

In regard to your last paragraph, does PCLinuxOS have anything like 
Linux Mint's "Mint Update"?  That program seems to be what keeps LMDE 
and other Mints up-to-date.  It can be configged to check for updates as 
little as 15 minutes to once every several days.

On 02/05/2012 07:58 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:47 AM, rex evans<rexfordevans at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> I always associated KDE with a graphical user interface, leastwise
>> it was back in the last century. Now, I see it is an OS. Branding??
>>
>> So, do you run Ubuntu on any computer anymore?
>>
> KDE is a desktop manager / graphical user interface (like Gnome, XFCE,
> LXDE, E17, etc.), not an os.
>
> No, I haven't run *buntu on anything since I put up PCLinuxOS. Even
> when I ran it, I always ran Kubuntu. I tired rather quickly of all the
> hoopla associated with a new release every few months.
>
> At the time I put up PCLinuxOS, KDE4 was in its infancy, and I was
> looking for a better KDE4 offering. Most of the other choices at that
> time didn't have a very usable KDE4 setup.
>
> I came from a Sidux (bleeding/leading edge Debian rolling release),
> but that distro got tied up with politics and changed names, and I was
> looking for another rolling release. I considered, Arch, but found the
> structure to to rather odd for my tastes.  PCLinusOS is a good
> compromise between bleeding/leading edge (eg. pretty good wireless
> support) and rock-solid stable.
>
> One caution with regard to rolling releases. You need to stay current
> with maintenance, or you may have a broken system. PCLinuxOS
> recommends twice monthly upgrades. There's only so much the packagers
> can do with installing new versions in the right order if the base
> system is too far out of date.
>
>

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Chuck Downing
Highlands Ranch, Colorado USA