PCLinuxOS 2010.7 – Hello, Old Friend

“I have not done anything with PCLinuxOS for quite some time.
First there was some personal / political turmoil in the PCLinuxOS
developer community, and then there seemed to be a long time with
no activity. When development seemed to pick up again, in the first
half of this year, I picked up a copy of the 2010 Beta release, and
then through an unfortunate combination of a bug in the installer
and my own complacency/inattentiveness, I made a mess of my primary
laptop. Now the PCLinuxOS 2010.7 Final release has been out for a
couple of months, and I have finally gotten around to loading it up
again. It is, as the title of this entry says, like seeing an old
friend again after a long time.

“I downloaded the KDE installation, transferred to a USB stick,
booted that and had it installed and running in less than 20
minutes. The installation dialog was similar to Mandriva, but not
identical. (People often say that PCLinuxOS is derived from
Mandriva, but that is not really true. They have a lot of common
roots, and PCLinuxOS still uses a lot of the “drakxxx” utilities,
but it is no longer “derived” from current Mandriva
distributions.)”

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