“Right up front I will tell you that I am not a Mandrake fan.
This is pretty common knowledge in the Linux community, but I
thought I should point it out again for those who may not already
know. There! I said it. Now on to the more important news: I like
PCLinuxOS 2K4. So much in fact that I was compelled to jot down my
thoughts on it. Texstar, its creator, is known for his high quality
work with Mandrake packages and now he is extending his art to the
the canvas known as the live Linux CD.“What is a live Linux CD? It’s a Linux distribution that runs
completely from CD, but can also be installed to the hard drive if
you so desire. PCLinuxOS (as of this writing is currently at
version 2K4 Preview 4) is based upon the Mandrake Linux 9.2 distro
(currently kernel 2.4.22) and, despite my thoughts on Mandrake, is
one of the best live CDs I have ever used. This was not something I
was expecting when I first heard about the distro and downloaded
the 700MB ISO image. This was not something I was expecting when I
burned the CD and booted to it…”
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Release Digest: Distributions, December 2, 2003
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