Any SUSE folks tried PCLinuxOS 2007???
 

Hi Gang.

I have been a SUSE user for several years now, but I'm thinking about making the switch to either PCLinuxOS 2007 or Kubuntu. I'm still VERY upset that the executives at Novell have been playing footsie with MicroCrap, and if they'd rather kowtow to the likes of Steve Balmer and/or Bill Gates, then I'm not gonna buy their stuff anymore. I was very concerned that Novell would poop up the very solid SUSE distro after they bought it, and when I first heard about their deal with MicroCrap, I was ready to bite my keyboard in half.

With this in mind, I'm wondering if many of you other SUSE users have also had the opportunity to play around with PCLinuxOS 2007? I'm still on SUSE 10.0, and I haven't upgraded to a newer version since there seems to have been lots of on-going problems that give me pause. Hence, I'm at the point that I just might drop SUSE altogether & give PCLinuxOS 2007 a try.

No need for lots of detailed answers, but if some of you SUSE users have been very pleased and/or impressed with PCLinuxOS 2007, I'd enjoyed reading about your overall impressions. I definitely want to use a robust Linux version that has all the programming tools I'll need to use, and I'm assuming that I should have no problems in downloading any compilers & supporting tools within PCLos if they're not already available within this particular distro.

I read some of the user reviews about this distro, and everyone seems to be very pleased with it. As long as it's easy to get all that one needs for good hardware support, multimedia tools, & it contains a very solid version of KDE, then this might be all that I really need to make the switch.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts & opinions that some of you may have. I really wish that SUSE was going to be headed in the right direction as far as the Open Source community is concerned, but ANYBODY that thinks that MicroCrap will EVER "play nice" with us Linux users is obviously either remarkably ignorant or just selfishly concerned with getting some big bucks from the folks at Redmond. I was a MicroCrap slave for 9+ years, and I'm NEVER going to step back into that sorry excuse of an OS EVER again. And I want to use a rock-solid distro of Linux from a development team that will in NO way compromise whatz best for the entire Open Source community, and especially for those of us who want to use & develop the best software tools at a very reasonable price for everyone else.

Thanks for your thoughts!

I'm using Suse 10.2 and have PCLinuxOS and Mepis. The PCLinuxOS installed on my set without any problems. It seems to be a good distro and I use it on the internet mainly. If you are going to use it on a laptop or a desktop I would say give it a try. You have to dig a little harder to find your extra programs that you may want to use. Suse has a lot of their programs on DVD that you won't find with the PCLinuxOS. If you have enough hd space I might suggest setting up a small partition and trying it first or if you do not use dial up internet do the live cd thing.

I got fed up with Suse and dumped it for PCLinuxOS two days ago and I couldn't be happier. I've been using Suse since 10.0 and it seems that with every new release, therez just more bugz. Everything on PCLinuxOS works so well that it's boring (nuthin' to "fix"). It has everything that I use. Flash 9, win32codecs. GoogleEarth, LightScribe, Opera, Nvidia, and so on....... Graphical Grub boot just like Suse except that it works. I had Suse 10.3 on my box for a week or so and it wouldn't even keep my HP C4180 settings after a reboot. Grub kept breaking. PCLinuxOS also seems to be faster than Suse 10.3. I haven't found it lacking for anything for my purposes.

Note:
I did change the repo and ran --> "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade"

I think that you'll be disappointed with Kubuntu if your use to Suse.

Hi slackass, try using SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1, Works well with my laptop, haven't encountered any problem yet =)

Hi gurl4sh25,

I think I'm guna stick with PCLOS for my RPM distro for awhile.
It comes with beryl compiz pre-installed and I've never played with that stuff before. (and it all actually works right out of the box...so to speak)

I may re-try Suse when I get tired of Sabayon and have a slot to put it in.
Right now my grub menu.lst is a mess.

Hi, beryl compiz is also pre-installed in SLED 10 =) Anyway I heard PCLinuxOS are pretty good, maybe i'll try to check this one

interesting how differently people think about different version numbers of a distro. if you go through the threads in LX you will find perhaps 50% people telling you that opensuse gets worse and worse since 10.0 and 50% stating the opposite. perhaps this is related to the fact that the operating system is most of the time only as good as the operator, isn't it?*g

if people express their personal feelings about distros, I will also do that. opensuse 10.3 rocks compared to all other versions... and no, I won't try anything else - also no PCLinuxOS - since I almost tried everything worth trying...

I use PCLinuxOS, Mepis and opensuse 10.2. Of the three, I prefer PCLinux. It's a polished distro and was one of the few that copes with my laptop hardware (ATI mobo) Nothing stands still in linux for long, so it's always worth keeping an eye on what is happening.

Mepis 7.0 is due for release shortly and I'm looking forward to that. I'm thinking about installing opensuse 10.3 to have a look at it, but I've just bought a new computer and I can't find anything that will install yet :( So I'm trying several distros to see which one can cope with the hardware. From what I'm reading opensuse 10.3 is looking the best.

Hi,
I am running OpenSuse 10.3 and have no problems at all, except I cant install Epson EPL-6200L laser printer (but that was since 10.1). Yesterday I dl PCLinuxOS 2007, burnt it and try to install it . At startup I got an error message regarding something about loop and mount point to be wrong and the job has been aborted.I cant remember now what exactly was the message. After that, the text window stopped and I have to reboot the comp. (withot the installation CD ). Can somebody tell me what is wrong???

@riba
this is perhaps a question for the PCLinuxOS forum?*g stay with suse its fine... and if there exists no driver for your epson printer it is not a problem of the distro neither a reason to change the distro...

I used to be SuSe for years.
I use both pclinux (Sam) and ubuntu on my laptop.


both work well and are very similar and simple to install packages.
no real pros or cons either way.

my desktop is solaris 10 which is a real quality piece of work
but not pretty!

I have no intention to change the distro. SUSE is my favorite. But I wanted just to check and see what it looks like.

I've been running Suse 10 on several desktops and two laptops (Acer & Dell) for over a year, and currently have 4 Suse 10.2 installs & one 10.1. Apart from the hassles with the YaST software management it does everything I want it to. I've even got a Brother DCP135c all-in-one working with it.

I have tested Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7 on laptops and in some ways it is much better for the user with no technical knowledge. Recently I tried PCLinuxOS2007 on my Acer TravelMate and it looks good. The usual problem with laptop displays is not recognising the correct resolution, but both Ubuntu and PCLos2007 got this right on first boot. PCLos2007 is nearer the look and feel of Suse, but with a control panel more like the Ubuntu paradigm. For a less technical person, it would make an easier transition from Windows than Suse or Ubuntu.

I haven't had much time to try it for real work, but hope to in the next couple of weeks. At the moment I am "recycling" some old Dell hardware using Ubuntu 6.06 for a charity providing free PC's and basic IT training to the unemployed in my part of London!

Pclinux does something else really unique. like mandriva it has a little app called 'live cd', however pclinux works much better at it.
As root in a terminal type the command 'remasterme' and it will create a bootable live dvd iso of your installation.

Since there appears to be no Solaris forum on this site, would you mind expanding on the above statement? I have installed Solaris 10 and find it rather slow and unfriendly. Aside from security issue what exactly do you like about it?

Thanks.