PC/OS, anyone?

I read a DW review of this (Favorable, very) and checked out the liveCD and it's not bad actually. It's an Xubuntu derivative, and seems to be more than a skinned Xubuntu. All codecs included, nice program selection. The maintainer is an IT professional.

It has a BeOS look to it. Curious if anyone is using this. It's a young distro, but somehow has climbed to 32 on DW?

EDIT: Come with Opera 9.6 as the default Browser...now that's a switch !

EDIT2: I'm finding out exactly what's different about this distro, re: Xubuntu. It seems to geared towards the multimedia user and developer, BOTH.

 

Man ElPenguino, why do you go through so many distros? What are you looking for? Some piece of hardware you are trying to find support for?

 

I'm having problems getting anything but a Ubuntu derivative installed on this Dell Precision. I think it's a hardware detection problem. Kubuntu 8.10 has been freezing on me so I'm looking again. On my Asus, MEPIS has been sitting on it for a long time, so no problems there. Plus, it's a good excuse to distro hop again...

EDIT: so far, Xubuntu x64 is running the best on this machine so far.
KDE4 gives kernel panic on Kubuntu and Mint, Mint KDE CD is ok so far after updates

 

Arch? Gentoo?

 

I'd need a cable for Arch or Gentoo...I'm away from home and trying out whatever I can with wireless support OTB. I'm going to build a desktop which is going to be a good place for one of those methinks. Also, Xubuntu x64 runs like a sexually assaulted Ape on this Precision. Trying Crunchbang now for grins....LOL

I guess I'm gonna have to settle on Mint KDE CD 4.2...this Precision is really finicky..basically, as long as it's a ubuntu derivative, it's ok.

 

I wonder why your Precision is no finicky? That's really weird, have you tried a distro like Fedora or OpenSuse?
I think I tried PC/OS a long time ago..or at least burned the CD lol, I guess I'll need to try it now.

 

I think it's in hw detection, I can't figure it out yet...the people on the mepis forum haven't been able to help either. I haven't gotten around to Suse yet....let's see how many DVD's I have left.....

 

Try Debian
The debian community is also bigger, so you should get answers on debian forums..

 

I may do that when I get back home and can cable up this laptop.

 

openSUSE

Need I say more?

 

How do the SuSE internals look to you? I mean, are its basic configuration files in /etc and such easy to hack and navigate, or is YaST good enough for the job?

 

To be honest, I just installed openSUSE last week and haven't done much. I was just suggesting it, because:

A. It seems to have good hardware detection

B. It's a fairly secure system from the start.

I have mostly just used it as a testing environment for random apps/KDE 4. From playing around though, I may use it as my main OS. IT has a lot of things I want from the start.

 

Are they on KDE 4.2 now? I'm pretty much trying to stay with a Debian based distro to avoid a learning curve, but who knows? I'm sticking with MEPIS 8 on my Asus, on this one I'm still trying them out but liking Mint KDE 4.2 at the moment.

 

They use gnome by default. I installed 4.2 meself.

It's not that far off the path. Linux is linux...mostly. Personally, I have started to hate synaptic and deb installs in general. I wanted to look into something different.

That said, not 1 hour ago I reformated my drive. I now have Mint (wanted to check out what the big deal was) and Fedora alpha 11. I went with the alpha, because my Fedora 10 disc won't get past the partitioner. I already had the alpha disc, so I figured what the heck. I'm gonna mess with things and then get back to openSUSE. I really dp see myself liking it.

 

I'm downloading Suse now to see if I can get into X with it. KDE4

 

Lol OpenSuSE rocks but I have some random issues with it(mostly my fault, probably).

You should like OpenSuse's KDE, it's KDE 4.1 but with KDE 4.2 backports of special features.