PCLinuxOS 2009.2 fits like an old pair of jeans

“This is most apparent in web browsing which suffers of notable
slowdowns on web pages that have higher than average complexity –
it feels almost like using a Vista! So what happens when you throw
in a distribution that comes with out-of-date kernel, Xorg, and
desktop environment? The damn thing works like a charm again. The
PCLinux 2009.2 is like going back to the 2007 again.

“The PCLinuxOS is an interesting story altogether. The Mandriva
forked distribution came up with a excellent out-of-the-box
experience few years back, and started gaining a notable hype even
in it’s preview versions. The final stable release 2007 really hit
the jackpot being the most desktop ready and “Windows user
friendly” Linux distribution at the time. In 2008 they released
equally excellent 2008 MiniMe edition of the operating system, but
then things started going rapidly downhill. Updates were less
frequent, no new major stable release was achieved, main developer
was off duty for quite some time, and all kinds of personal drama
was stirring in the community. The 2009.1 release was more like a
“2007.1″ release and didn’t impress anyone.”

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