[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Everybody knows PCLinuxOS is radically simple, right? And it
is. It’s one of the best Live CDs around because it has all the
non-free codecs and plugins installed by default, it’s easy to
install on the harddisk, and it doesn’t require much configuration
afterwards–unless you are one of those people that like to
configure, tweak and personalize their OS to the point of turning
it into a new distro.“I always thought replacing urpmi with Synaptic was a good
decision, but switching to the Sections view I realized not
everything is radically simple in PCLinuxOS. Or logical, for that
matter…”
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